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
content design
A collection of 14 issues
This week's best things
Digital failure, smoky twirls, AI’s energy diet, alt-phones for t(w)eens, rotating sandwiches, Pocket says goodbye, Airbnb wants to be everything, leadership in 2025, the Who Cares era. I’m back from Aarhus, and I’d love your thoughts on the report.
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
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
Advice for content teams on website redesigns, how to fix social media, inattention, hopeful technologists, understanding ease, BBC research on AI inaccuracies, a new digital museum, an experimentation framework, innovation at TodayTix, and a Bruce Springsteen cover.
This week's best things
Product thinking at the V&A, community value, saving US government websites, a box office AI assistant, Monzo's writing system, a Pittsburg AR experience, a new brand for Paraorchestra, battery technology, Grand Theft Hamlet, the death of Duo, AI in journalism, and a data trust experiment.
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.
This week's best things
Gen Z's regrets about social media, Adam Koszary thinks it has value, Google's AI search fails, replicating handwriting with AI, the importance of generalists, a story about Gmail, Netflix's endless library, unparliamentary language, and an interview with Clare Reddington.
Getting over 'the fold' and understanding how people read
A look at how people read in screen-based/scrolling enviroments
Cultural website, review of the week: #009 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Some thoughts on the website for Amsterdam's museum for modern and contemporary art and design