This week's best things
Dopamine addiction and the end of being 'extremely online', Amazon's Wizard of Oz approach to AI, the cost of interrupted work, a haunted Discord server, AI being used to revive the dead, and The Makedonium Band
Dopamine addiction and the end of being 'extremely online', Amazon's Wizard of Oz approach to AI, the cost of interrupted work, a haunted Discord server, AI being used to revive the dead, and The Makedonium Band
Reflections on and lessons from creative r&d workshops in the Netherlands.
A look at how people read in screen-based/scrolling enviroments
A new impact report from Art UK, concerns about OpenAI's new video generator, the importance of soft skills in an AI-impacted jobs market, the value of music, social media protocols, an interview with VIVE Art's Sam King, and RY X.
The social media success of the Sacramento History Museum, the design of the Angostura bitters label, AI font pairing, the impact of generational communication preferences, the battlefields of Ukraine are the world's biggest R&D lab, the early internet, and Christopher Tin.
Sharing Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters and Alexandra Barancová's design manifesto, 'Designing Friction', and some thoughts on how it could be useful for cultural organisations.