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.
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ways of thinking
A collection of 81 issues
Embracing seasonality - we're not built for 100% all year
Since moving to Sweden 18 months ago, one of the biggest shifts I’ve noticed, compared to life in the UK, is how deeply seasonal life feels here. It feels worth embracing.
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
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
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
A wall of sound, a spectacular website celebrating Andrei Sakharov, the importance of word choices, Kotter's dual operating system, Swedish perspectives on AI in exhibitions, an AI playbook for charities, Fyre Festival 2, a final essay from SGS and Owais Lightwala, a survey on digital failure.
Beyond the promise - when digital falls short: Let's talk about failure
I’m running a short, anonymous survey to gather real experiences of digital projects that didn’t go as planned. The aim isn’t to dwell on what went wrong, but to understand why so we can share lessons that help the whole sector make digital work better.
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.
Mike Keating on AI policy development at Art Fund
Mike Keating on introducing user-centric practices, sharing knowledge, and the collaborative development of policies.
This week's best things
AI-generated subtitles, and an AI 'tar pit', some things about TikTok, overwork in the arts, walking-focused interaction, Dropbox's brand guidelines, subscription business models, Nokia's design archive, automation in UK retail, dealing with side chats in meetings,