This week's best things
The importance of taste, AI’s impact on culture, and why boring beats hype. Plus product thinking, buy vs build, learning organisations, Gen Z heritage, bias, action traps, and the end of social media.
Topic
accessibility
A collection of 13 issues
This week's best things
Anonymous curators at Apple Music Classical, a zero-click AI vulnerability, the illusion of alignment in digital projects, crowdsourced visioning at the National Gallery, Excel as esport, and what playgrounds reveal about gender and space. Plus: shoes, stoops, and Karel Gott.
This week's best things
A new community of practice, inclusive storytelling in museums, visual literacy as civil defence, team dysfunctions, mental health on TikTok, the cost of YouTube, the forgetting curve, AI’s limits, digital skills, art rate monitoring, and my enduring love for Sigur Rós.
This week's best things
Floppy disks as shelf space, WCAG in plain English, designing for limited English, a moody global radio stream, weather apps hurting UK tourism, and Disney’s churros beating streaming. Plus jobs, a joyful viral harmonica group, and tools to rethink time and knowledge.
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.
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
This week's best things
Alternate history, research on business models, AI news, disruptions to search, tap design, the accessibility of museums and galleries, a classical music VR experience, the UX of buying an airline ticket, an interview with Charlotte Higgins, immersive experiences, and a Guns n Roses cover.
This week's best things
AI-generated subtitles, and an AI 'tar pit', some things about TikTok, overwork in the arts, walking-focused interaction, Dropbox's brand guidelines, subscription business models, Nokia's design archive, automation in UK retail, dealing with side chats in meetings,
This week's best things
Nokia's design archive, the dangers of bad strategy, a fun smartphone app, dyslexia-friendly content design, the impact of GPS on memory, AI skepticism, different ways of thinking about work schedules, changes in Google search, and a trip to the opera.