Dan Craddock

More damning that threatening, AI is cringe.

To my students at least.

For the last 2+ years I've been teaching a course built around conversations about AI and its implications, and each term I've been surprised at the shift in student attitudes.

Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide We’ve improved how we work at GOV.UK by creating a new design resource for our teams. Here’s why and how we did it.

Hey Greg, I really enjoyed your talk today and look forward to reading your book. In case you missed it, this post by the UK GDS is relevant to this topic: insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/25/c...

Since leaving The Australian Peter and Gideon Haigh run a substack and podcast : "Cricket et al" where you can support their excellent (independent!) writing and chatter.
www.cricketetal.com
#CricketEtAl
#SEN
#cricket

@henrywagons.bsky.social what’s theme tonight, Hank?

Melbournians, it’s 37C today - some of you are taking the piss by wearing a puffer jacket 🥵

And his turnout would’ve again been less than Obama’s.

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

Anything to deny the cause and impact of climate change.

Same thing happened during the 2019-20 Australian fires. Murdoch press and trolls perpetuated the falsehood that the fires were all started by arsonists (in fact, most were started by lightning). Regardless, the fires’ severity was largely the result of extreme drought and weather conditions.

It always amazes me just how much money people are prepared to spend to avoid doing the right thing.

On his birthday!

Looks like AI created that photo - they all look like same!

@henrywagons.bsky.social good to see you over here! What’s tonight’s theme?

I switched for this reason, and received superior UX to boot!

Raise concerns about Palantir's NHS lock-in and you'll be righteously branded as a privacy freak. Note the dangers of neglecting core capabilities for unproven AI being oversold by Microsoft and others and you're a Luddite or a digital NIMBY.

Thank you!

BTW, no Moby Grape? Tsk, tsk...

The perfect Saturday night/Sunday morning record.

I had 'Today' in my head the whole time I was in SF when I visited last year. A total trip.

PS. loving this list! Reminds me of this www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums...

Replace "watch" with "buy" and you have the same enshittification strategy as Amazon.

Advice for all younger UXers: good design training and books are essential for underpinning your skills and knowledge. But you’ll rarely find a workplace or client that will let you apply them the way they tell you, the way they should be. Make peace with this and make progress.

Summer Game 'Outstanding this book ought to change the writing of cricket history by setting new standards the affect is evocative and powerful. Buy his book. It's bril...

Not only do I consider this book to be a high watermark in cricket writing, it inspired me to a High Distinction in my first year at university, at a time I was deeply homesick and about to quit. www.harpercollins.com.au/978073332003...

Buffalo Springfield
Love
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Cold Chisel
The Cars
R.E.M
The Posies
You Am I

And a brilliant counter to FAQs blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-stude...

Don’t click here. Do this instead. Hyperlinks count. Be clear about where yours will send your readers.

Rhetorical question, it’s the latter. Here’s some ammo if you’re fighting the good fight against bad link text slowburnweb.medium.com/dont-click-h...

Is the battle against FAQs and ‘click here’ links lost? Or just endless? 😥

Does anyone have any articles/research they can refer to me about the need to dial down sales-y content about a product's features and benefits once the user has signed up or installed? i.e. we should switch the focus to onboarding and/or letting them just use it? #ux

A ceiling fan positioned close to a wall that has a section cut out to allow the blades to rotate

When you spend $$$ and hours making a PDF accessible rather than simply creating an HTML page…

Schrödinger's charity content:
- not important enough to fact check
- too important to archive

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