Christine at Crocstar

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...

Some super research on those “translate this page” buttons, courtesy of @jamesgreen.bsky.social in the Essex content design team servicetransformation.blog.essex.gov.uk/2024/04/08/s...

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

Love it when we’re all aligned!

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

Today’s? Tiny pink, red, green and black diamonds ♦️

This has made my day! 🥰 Today: bright green with a damask-style pattern at the top 💚♠️

Must try and catch you today to compare notes on being half French 🇫🇷😂

See ya there!

Well that’s perfect: see you there!

☹️ Hate to hear it.

Yeyyyyyy! See you there!

I’m going to UKGovCamp tomorrow - are you? Let me know!

I want to hang out with her all the time ❤️

Looking for new work from start of Feb.

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

I’d also be interested taking on a product manager role.

Sometimes I pine for the genteel social media days of the early 2000s when we’d Elf ourselves at Christmas 😂

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...

Ha! Do you remember what it was?

Even lawyers don’t like legalese MIT researchers find that while lawyers can interpret and recall information from legal documents better than nonlawyers, it’s still easier for them to understand the same documents when translated ...

Didn’t mean to sneak humblebrag 🙄😂 Also spotted this the other day: Even lawyers don’t like legalese news.mit.edu/2023/new-stu...

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

Instagram tells me dresses over trousers are BACK baby