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
digital experiences
A collection of 18 issues
This week's best things
Community-building for digital folks, responsible AI, magical summer questions, learning from failure, the future of essays, Greg’s fridge, Art UK’s quiet triumph, knowing machines, Glastonbury at scale, r/preformances, and Wiki Radio.
This week's best things
Influencer-led accessibility stories, the end of onedayism, hoarding pre-AI content, mobile vs TV, quitting wisely, AI’s brain impact, hybrid theatre, monopoly inertia, team tools, digital readiness, arts pay, and a brutal 1910 Tour de France, plus books, podcasts, and Anohni.
Three types of hybrid experience
A simple framework for understanding and talking about hybrid cultural experiences: Simultaneous, Layered, and Embedded. And why shared language helps teams be clearer about what they’re really trying to create when blending digital and physical elements.
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
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
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
New things from the Rijksmuseum, a heuristic framework for content, more on the limitations of genAI, a Japanese farmer creating techno bangers, a call for leaders to explore different ways of thinking and working, a look at the impact of 2024's tech trends, and an interesting Radiohead cover.
This week's best things
Generative poetry, AI hypocrisy, women in tech leadership, immersive funding, access to French 3D scans, new AirPod features, teenage burnout, TikTok harms, GTA Paisley, perceptions of time, and a load of TV
This week's best things
An experiment from the BBC, should orchestras be more like Netflix, thoughts on what happens next with search, Instagram makes teen accounts private by default, a psychologist on how to deal with social media, thoughts on AI, is this blue, a good book, and a superb video installation.