The 3 Modes Model and Digital Work Canvas
The 3 Modes Model and Canvas helps organisations clarify, align, and map their digital work across three core modes: Enable, Engage, and Express.
Ash Mann
This week's best things
Immersive funding, designing a platform for young people, YouTube is 20, new AI stuff from Google Arts & Culture, Microsoft is shutting down Skype, stakeholders, a case study of website carbon reduction, Seb Chan being interviewed, Google's antitrust cases, and PrepperDisk
This week's best things
Serendipity, collaborative digital art, donation UX, the best museum cafes in the UK, crimes of UX, how people are using gen AI in 2025, a digital Ned Kelly experience, and digital fishmongers.
This week's best things
Rebrands, robots, coping with virtual meetings, webcams, chickens, the water-cooler moment moves online, the downsides of effortlessness, why graphic designers can't stop joking about hating their jobs, Bluesky can't take a joke, and wide-leg jeans from the 90s.
Embracing seasonality - we're not built for 100% all year
Since moving to Sweden 18 months ago, one of the biggest shifts I’ve noticed, compared to life in the UK, is how deeply seasonal life feels here. It feels worth embracing.
This week's best things
Failure stories, FOH & education teams, the National Theatre, a million homepages, AI optimism, museum toolkits, Wikimedia crawlers, knitting, the immersive industry, gov collabs, and a strange Nintendo site.
This week's best things
Surrealism, impressive HTML, accessible content, a new Swiss passport design, Pixar's rules for storytelling for UX, chatbots and mental health, a new book about Facebook, immersive art and mental health, AI preferences, Gen Z and millennials, documentation, 23andMe, and Gary Oldman laughing a lot.
Book notes '24
A chronological list of all the books I read last year with a few words about each.
This week's best things
The FACT symposium, Margaret Heffernan, Fourth Spaces, a new digital experience from the National Gallery, Digital Culture Talks, running a 'failure budget', museum exhibition experience, UX is dead, little book of strategy, more AI woe, and a family of t-rexes
Beks Leary on 200 Creators - reach, resourcing, risk, and organisational buy-in
A podcast chat with the National Gallery's Beks Leary exploring lessons from working in large vs small organisations, differences in digital storytelling across sectors, and key lessons from the 200 Creators project.