This week's best things #98
Digital trust, arts funding critique, design decision-making, AI search failures, artist ownership structures, rural museum reach, a rubbish car design, and window swap.
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design
A collection of 18 issues
This week's best things #93
Big tech alternatives, a generative music visualisation of NYC subway trains, cybersecurity risks from AI coding agents, a cinema lab, nano-newsletter economics, a classic pen design, colour recall, and reflections from London.
This week's best things #82
We've had quite a lot of snow this week, so we went sliding down the hill near our house and found a snowman. A snowy landscape is a wonderful thing.
We're off to my favourite sauna on the west coast on Sunday. Blekets Bastu is like
What Dobble can teach us about UX
Playing Dobble for the first time made me think about how our brains handle attention, clutter, and perception. The same principles that make the game chaotic also explain why some digital experiences feel effortless while others are exhausting.
This week's best things #80
Playing an instrument helps keep the brain young. Also: a museum of web design, innovation vs infrastructure, antifragility, Aurora Orchestra’s learning platform, sensory sculpture, design systems at the NHS, the “futures cone” as a way to think about uncertainty, and the “Age of Worth It.”
This week's best things
FACT’s purpose-driven restructure, pilots for a new digital cultural community, and Copenhagen’s green rewards scheme. Plus: optical corrections in design, kids on ditching phones, short-video brain effects, AI’s cultural bias, museum app woes, TikTok strikes, and the Prague Spring.
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
Why artists matter to tech, the unexpected power of boredom, and a new AI tool made for the heritage sector. Plus: trees, cybersecurity, detox camps, and chocolate bar nostalgia. I read Wired, Heffernan, and Turnbull so you don’t have to. Also I saw a play and bought more books.
This week's best things
Helsinki’s epic library, future storytellers, museum memory in wartime Ukraine, resisting busy-ness, the protective value of good ux, media’s traffic apocalypse, Medium's turnaround, foggy governance, Apple UI frost, sustainable comms, and a (new) podcast on building (real) things.
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