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Christine at Crocstar

@crocstar.bsky.social

I head up Crocstar: a brilliant agency if you need content design, content strategy and training. Join my content community! ๐Ÿคฉ Ex- Yahoo!, BBC and GDS. She/her.

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New training course: Content design for forms - Effortmark Join Caroline Jarrett to learn how to write questions and instructions for forms. In association with Crocstar training school.

Happy to announce that I've teamed with
@crocstar.bsky.social to offer a new course "Content design for forms", in person, 27th July 24 in London.

More details and tickets: www.effortmark.co.uk/27-june-24-c...

08.05.2024 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Should you have a button on your website that says โ€˜translateโ€™? - Service Transformation The Service Transformation team brings together business design, continuous improvement, organisation design and service design. We work closely with teams across the council to have a positive impact...

Some super research on those โ€œtranslate this pageโ€ buttons, courtesy of @jamesgreen.bsky.social in the Essex content design team servicetransformation.blog.essex.gov.uk/2024/04/08/s...

09.04.2024 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photograph of someone typing on a laptop. The text says โ€œEmbracing the ISO Plain Language Standard,โ€ followed by โ€œTogether, we can create clear and effective communication.โ€

A photograph of someone typing on a laptop. The text says โ€œEmbracing the ISO Plain Language Standard,โ€ followed by โ€œTogether, we can create clear and effective communication.โ€

Calling all plain language professionals. The ISO Plain Language Standard is a valuable addition to your tool kit. Get a copy to make sure your practice aligns with international standards.
bit.ly/42PqTdA
#communication #writing #editing #PlainLanguage #standard

09.04.2024 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I actually do wonder this all the time, so thank you!

10.04.2024 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love it when weโ€™re all aligned!

10.04.2024 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would love to do this! Where do I sign up?

14.03.2024 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Todayโ€™s? Tiny pink, red, green and black diamonds โ™ฆ๏ธ

14.03.2024 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This has made my day! ๐Ÿฅฐ Today: bright green with a damask-style pattern at the top ๐Ÿ’šโ™ ๏ธ

04.03.2024 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Must try and catch you today to compare notes on being half French ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ˜‚

20.01.2024 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

See ya there!

19.01.2024 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well thatโ€™s perfect: see you there!

19.01.2024 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ˜น๏ธ Hate to hear it.

19.01.2024 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeyyyyyy! See you there!

19.01.2024 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m going to UKGovCamp tomorrow - are you? Let me know!

19.01.2024 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want to hang out with her all the time โค๏ธ

05.12.2023 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking for new work from start of Feb.

Let me know if you need an experienced interaction designer on your team!

Iโ€™d also be interested taking on a product manager role.

28.11.2023 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes I pine for the genteel social media days of the early 2000s when weโ€™d Elf ourselves at Christmas ๐Ÿ˜‚

26.11.2023 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Engaging bilingual users at Natural Resources Wales Making the user experience consistent - no matter the language

It's always really good to see clients talking about the impact we're making.

Natural Resources Wales are in Computing on improving users' experience and working with bi-lingual content. The result of a great partnership with Basis and
@crocstar.bsky.social

www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4142...

13.11.2023 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ha! Do you remember what it was?

17.10.2023 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Even lawyers donโ€™t like legalese MIT researchers find that while lawyers can interpret and recall information from legal documents better than nonlawyers, itโ€™s still easier for them to understand the same documents when translated ...

Didnโ€™t mean to sneak humblebrag ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‚ Also spotted this the other day: Even lawyers donโ€™t like legalese news.mit.edu/2023/new-stu...

17.10.2023 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Public Speaks, Again: An International Study of Legal Communication By Christopher R. Trudeau and Christine Cawthorne, Published on 12/01/17

The Trudeau one? lawrepository.ualr.edu/faculty_scho... (and follow up: lawrepository.ualr.edu/lawreview/vo...)

17.10.2023 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Instagram tells me dresses over trousers are BACK baby

22.09.2023 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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