Pixels of the Week – October 19, 2025

Pixels of the Week is my weekly-ish curated newsletter for designers, UX folks, devs, and anyone building accessible, inclusive, usable (and let’s be honest, awesome) digital products. I share interesting articles, tools, inspiration, and resources I found during the week. This is the archive version. If you’d rather get it straight in your inbox (plus be notified when I publish other articles), subscribe to my newsletter.

Now: what I’m currently up to

Busy week, means, shorter newsletter! Enjoy.

Most popular content this week

Why I gave the world wide web away for free (6min)  Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the web for free: “I believed that giving users such a simple way to navigate the internet would unlock creativity and collaboration on a global scale (…) In order to succeed, therefore, it would have to be free.”. He also reflects on today’s state of the web, at the hands of large platforms harvesting user’s data for commercial purpose. We took the wrong path. But he also believes that it’s not too late to re-empower individuals, and take the web back. Let’s hope?

Interesting articles that caught my attention

Many years on the job and I still don’t get it. (5min) I used to joke about the fact that a UX researcher job is 20% research with users and 80% of other stuff, around the research to prepare, analysis, etc. Apparently, same for development. By Dave Rupert

Writing alt text with AI (5min) Jared Cunha explains that LLMs can lower the burden of writing useful alt text for images, with the right prompting: state you want an alt text, give context, tell it what to emphasize, tell it the length. I’m curious if anyone has experience with this, and how it went? Was the alt text any good?

Inspiration: fun experiments, beautiful art, and great ideas

A cartoonist’s review of AI art: The Oatmeal’s view on AI art is quite interesting. It brings some mediocrity to the world, but also, it can help artists with tasks they find administrative. In the end, it will never have a heart. And that’s what makes a difference.

Messenger a cute cozy multi players game in the browser where you deliver letters

Stone Drip would I pay 3800eur for a coffee maker? Nope. But, I have to admit, it’s absolutely stunning.

Tutorials

The Fundamentals of CSS Alignment (40min) a long tutorial, with many illustrated examples, by Temani Afif to show you different methods, to align everything in CSS. Long gone are the days of the floats, welcome grid, flexbox, and more. Love it.

Accessible form validation with examples and code (20min) a long tutorial on how to make forms more accessible, by using custom error messages (because let’s face it the browser ones are not always that amazing).

Latest news in the industry

Turn Your ChatGPT Brainstorms Into FigJam Diagrams  (5min) I need to test this, I’m super curious, being able to quickly turn a drawing into