This week's best things #85
Opaque web filtering, accessibility, algorithmic power, the world's quietest room, crisis leadership, Google's year in search, and the dangers of organisational firefighting.
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A collection of 39 issues
This week's best things #84
A mix of indie web oddities, creative projects, research on leadership, tools to dodge AI slop, and how AI safety features can be circumvented with poetry. Also some reflections on audio design, leadership dynamics, a design system from the Swedish state railway, and a recipe for clotted cream
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.
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.