Pixels of the Week – June 29, 2025

My curated weekly-ish online newsletter, where I share interesting articles, tools, and resources I found during the week. You can expect content about UX, design, user research, accessibility & tech, but also some processes, some inspiration, sometimes books, and a couple of videos and podcasts. Also, don’t forget to, subscribe to my newsletter to get notified, you will get the weekly links directly in your mailbox, and be notified when I publish other articles.

Now: what I’m currently up to

Reminder that I’m live on July 2, 6PM GMT+2, to talk about challenges of Enterprise UX with UXtweak! You can register on Eventbrite.

Most popular content this week

How can designers make websites more inclusive and accessible?

Design beyond barriers is a nice resource, with different short guides that answers questions designers might have around accessibility: how to choose the right typeface, what do I need to know about colors, how to make layouts more accessible, etc.

Interesting articles that caught my attention

Pockets are a Significant, Untapped Market  What starts with a P and ends with an S that every single woman dreams about? POCKETS! My neurospicy partner Myriam Jessier explains why e-commerce should have a “pocket” filter in their search (and more clothes with actual pockets)

UX Challenges with MCPs MCP (Model Context Protocol) lets you use natural language to orchestrate tasks like finding files, summarizing content, and automating workflows across platforms. MCPs excel at discrete “orchestration” work. But, they struggle with real-time, iterative tasks, like designing or tweaking UIs, they are weak for refinement. The idea would be a hybrid approach, that lets you both orchestration and iteration, getting best of both worlds. by Hardik Pandya

Agent Management Interface Patterns (6min) Luke Worblewski explores different patterns (kanban board, dashboards, inboxes, task lists and calendars), that could be used to help users steer, schedule and assess multiple AI agents. Complex topic, because, whenever a new technology emerges, user interfaces go through a balancing act between making the new technology approachable through common patterns and embodying what makes it unique.

Inspiration: fun experiments, beautiful art, and great ideas

Vystery: finally, a daily game I enjoy: click on the dots to unveil an image, and guess with minimum amount of moves

Useful tools & resources

Copy rotation a simple yet powerful rotation copy tool that helps you create precise circular array patterns. With intuitive drag-and-drop operations, you can preview and adjust rotation angle, count, and distance in real-time.

The Punctuation Guide, a guide to help understand how to properly use some punctuation in American English. That’s super useful for content writers, but, also, anyone wanting to geek around about micro-typography. (via Cassidoo’s newsletter )

New research backs up what gamers have thought for years: cozy video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety. Reuters created a Cozy comfort interactive game, that explains the research behind this, and why cozy games are so successful. (also via Cassidoo’s newsletter )

Visual Mockups a Figma plugin to put your design into different mockups, from phones and tablets to billboards, posters, and more. Also, check Minimal Mockups for more mockups.

Cool and Interesting Videos

Introducing: Webbed Sites (the video has flashing content and might be triggering to photo-sensitive people). Heydon made a sarcastic video about the divs soup generated by the latest no-code tool in the market, and, their, apology for the mess.