Millie Devereux

"it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" Upton Sinclair

Reader, I felt this in my chest. @blangry.bsky.social called it, in a great talk with the also-excellent Katherine Wastell at #CampDigital

03.07.2025 12:50 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Card with I have strong opinions but no actual knowledge on one side and I have actual knowledge or lived experience of this on the other

Packing for academic #codesign workshop in Amsterdam. Taking my passive-aggressive facilitation cards along. This is without #AI version

07.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

One of the biggest barriers to digital service transformation is budget separation.

It’s a cost item on a digital budget.

Which later results in savings in the service operation budget.

That’s a different team, unit or even organisation.

1/X

24.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 35    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 2

UKGovCamp in 2025public digitalpublic digital Dive into #GovCamp2025 highlights: AI for good, leadership, policy insights, and a powerful session on overcoming the inner critic to unleash collaborative creativity.

We went to UKGovCamp 2025 and have a lot to share 🏢

21.01.2025 15:18 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I think too much attention is given to trying to analyse Musk's politics relative to his state of mind. Quite aside from his malign activism, it is obvious that he is not well.

07.01.2025 12:31 — 👍 206    🔁 41    💬 9    📌 1

Help us make a consent form that works with demand avoidance - Essex County Council's Essex Digital Service

My lovely user research colleague Claire wants to run a design sprint looking at consent forms and Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA).

Anyone here interested in getting involved?

essexdigitalservice.blog.essex.gov.uk/2025/01/06/h...

06.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 14    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 0

Been reading a respected psychology academic this morning, only knowing their first initial and surname. The entire time I had an image of a balding older gentleman in glasses.

I've just realised she is a woman in her early forties. Feels like the punchline of the surgeon car crash riddle.

Bah.

17.12.2024 13:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Went to the speech this morning. A few thoughts. TL;DR - I thought it was really good, but of course lots of tricky challenges to work through. 🧵

09.12.2024 11:57 — 👍 162    🔁 72    💬 16    📌 21

This one has not aged.

I wish it had.

It’s still as relevant now as it was then.

21.11.2024 00:22 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Tim Paul | Automation and the Jevons paradox Portfolio site for Tim Paul, designer

If you’ve ever heard someone say “If we automated X, it would free people up to do Y”, and thought 🤔, I just wrote a thing about that: www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/automation-and-the-jevons-paradox/

29.04.2024 07:51 — 👍 51    🔁 19    💬 8    📌 3