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.
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social media
A collection of 37 issues
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
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
Digital project failure report out next week, June webinars, artistic beauty and abstract thinking, viral museum videos, brand messaging tips, compressed music risks, AI search impact, museum digital trends, AI in dementia care, TikTok ad breaches, Disney plans, AI agent confusion, and art adverts.
This week's best things
A new NGA.gov, art in hard times, fresh ways to frame digital, ancient oranges, guarding teams from strategy fatigue, Japanese tree moving, bot farms and info literacy, quick sketching, AI dev hurdles, London Underground Live, and robot arms.
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.
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.
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.
This week's best things
Tone of voice, Google and the future of search, Digg returns, a fish doorbell, designing better error messages, Duolingo's product principles, Albania shuts down TikTok for a year, can ChatGPT replace a curator, a load of vacancies, salt sculptures, and Sweden's Eurovision entry.
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.