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Customers first

This is a nice way of putting it, "We work for your customers. We may have to take their side at times." From Edenspiekermann.

 

AI like plastic

I think this is a useful analogy.

"[AI tools] will be, in retrospect, like the invention of plastics. There are plenty of valuable things, but ultimately, it will be hard to determine if we have created more harm than good with them."

From Igor Schwarzmann over on LinkedIn.

Google is still the homepage

The Google Trends end of year report is always interesting. The top 3 this year aren't searches - they're navigation. Google is the Homepage. Still. For a whole lot of people.

We used to say this at GDS and 11 years ago in January 2012 I tried to explain What does "Google is the homepage" mean in real life? I didn't invent the expression, of course, I first heard it from Richard Pope who wrote about it on the GDS alpha blog in April 2011, when he laid out A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk.

I found an earlier mention of it, in December 2008 on the Guardian written by Jemima Kiss. 14 years ago she explains the above example better than I have done. "The first six months of the year were particularly Facebook crazy, but that still doesn't entirely explain why Facebook would be the most searched term of 2008 in the UK. It's not like the URL - Facebook.com - is particularly hard to remember, so perhaps Google is the homepage and people like my Mum forget to type the address into the address bar instead of the Google search box..."

Fireworks at Legoland

Bonfire Night at Legoland starts with Queen's We Will Rock You, with the fireworks playing the Stomp Stomp Clap intro. All firework displays should do this from now on.

Thanks to my special correspondent YT (aged 10) who first alerted me to this story.