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Andrew Travers

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Designer and researcher working with the UK's public sector. I wrote ‘Interviewing for research’ once upon a time. Occasionally blogging here: andrewtravers.com

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Introducing the GOV Reuse Library The GOV Reuse Library is a new cross-government initiative designed to help teams work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively by reusing proven digital service components. Developed by the Ministry...

mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/02/i...

03.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

I bounce around to the point of distraction and wish I had a happier answer. Some folk seem to like Zen as an Arc replacement, but I've resigned myself to Firefox for as long as it hangs on in there. Browser + Kagi + EFF's Privacy Badger is the real non-negotiable for me

02.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

**Jobs**

Dear Bluesky folks, we are looking for more folks to join us at IF.

Product manager with AI expertise
ML engineer
Design engineer

If you’re interested in working at the intersection of genAI and trust, please get in touch with me & help me share! A mix of perm and freelance

28.08.2025 08:56 — 👍 0    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

So glad you were there for that

28.08.2025 04:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland Personal stories of conflict and peace. 25 years on from the end of the Troubles, those who lived through it share intimate, unheard testimonies - and reflect on its legacy.

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

27.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Roadliners Roadliners is a film about inspiration and craft, and the uncelebrated typographers of the road. With filmmakers Pretend Lovers we documented a day in the life of…

A while back, Glasgow's O Street studio produced a nice short film with a roadliner (which had inspired their own rebrand) vimeo.com/162399433 + www.itsnicethat.com/articles/o-s...

26.08.2025 16:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Yellow background, black text. Reads 'we're looking for creative and ML technologists to join our network'.

Yellow background, black text. Reads 'we're looking for creative and ML technologists to join our network'.

Come and join us to work on some VERY interesting projects that will change the lives of millions of people around the world, with a great team, who like to work hard and have fun too

tally.so/r/mZXV6e

21.08.2025 10:05 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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designswarm {thoughts} Blogging since 2005

Can't imagine there's *anything* I'm reading you won't already know inside out but particularly enjoying Alexandra (www.designswarm.com/blog/), Mandy (aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/), Maggie (maggieappleton.com), Rachel (kwon.nyc/notes/) and Denise (walknotes.com). +1 for Russell too, obviously...

08.08.2025 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You spoke really well, Tim — thanks for saying it

08.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Late reply but I initially rebounded into Instapaper, then decided I was missing an opportunity to simplify things more and remove one more extension, so now just using my browser's reading list and, for stuff I want to keep, sharing it into Notes .app where everything else lives for me

25.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hard pushed to think of a more interesting place or better people to be working with right now

24.06.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aww, that's really sad, Si — hope you're doing ok

23.06.2025 11:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Fastmail and Google, not Fastmail or Google | Andrew Travers Interaction design, user research, design leadership

.@fastmail.com and Google, not Fastmail or Google. Just in case it helps one person... www.andrewtravers.co/journal/fast...

19.06.2025 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wonderful. Brought back a few very happy memories too ♥️

12.06.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bon Iver’s new thing, SABLE fABLE, is a really good album-as-a-complete-idea open.spotify.com/album/3L3Ujp...

19.05.2025 11:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Building Successful Communites of Practice with Emily Webber

Coming soon, sign up now for a discount at launch.

Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations 

An online self-paced course at https://tacit.pub/onlinecourse

Building Successful Communites of Practice with Emily Webber Coming soon, sign up now for a discount at launch. Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations An online self-paced course at https://tacit.pub/onlinecourse

Exciting news! I'm launching my brand new online self-paced course very soon.

With videos, reading, and hands-on activities, learn how to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations.

Sign up now to receive a discount at launch tacit.pub/onlinecourse

06.05.2025 09:43 — 👍 29    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 4
TH/NGS 2024 - Matt Webb
YouTube video by ThingsCon TH/NGS 2024 - Matt Webb

So true. I finally watched Matt's ThingsCon keynote this morning and it is just... brimming with imagination youtu.be/vDP24ARdGDA?...

02.05.2025 13:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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