I just screened a suspected spam call on my Google Pixel phone. Reading the transcript the callers language seemed formal and stilted. The spam bot was talking to my screening bot.
It's happening, the AIs are chatting to each other. I should have left the conversation run and see where they got to
Reading articles about civil service departures and it says 'anonymous briefings", is that codespeak for leaks
24.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Local council site delivered in 3 weeks via white labbeledd Drupal local government instance.
"With the right platform, the limiting factor isn’t development — it’s the planning."
newarkandsherwood.localgov.blog/2026/02/02/n...
"sunlight is the best disinfectant." Hillary Clinton
17.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trained in typography at uni. But dayjob means I never get to finesse type much. This little story of the elegant em dash (wide hyphen) tickles my design roots
pca.st/episode/3f66...
Tra elling through Liverpool Street station for nearly 15 years but never spotted this poignant memorial. The injustice and cruelty of bigotry committed at state level needs reminding to us all. After recent events, have we forgotten where it leads
yoursculpture.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/f...
Are Lego the only retail organisation hiring service design and UR? Must be a skandi thing
24.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Director of service design and research. Good place to build a career?
www.lego.com/en-us/career...?
In design we use progressive disclosure to reveal a feature/functionality in phases. Each phase is based on a users context. User research can be revealed to an audience in that progressive way.
22.01.2026 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When electricity first started to be widely adopted I bet there were lots of accidental electricutions and users getting burned. And so it is with this new fangled AI proliferating
22.01.2026 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To gin something up -
"generate or increase something, especially by dubious or dishonest means." Example, "the trade press has ginned up a controversy"
Immigration figures. The truth explained by statisticians
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
Very easy for us all to slip down the social media fury rabbit hole of outrage at the experts But worth also remembering the advances experts make. This new vaccine is progress.
Chickenpox vaccines for young children start across UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lol. Nope
12.12.2025 08:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just bought Abby Covert's, should I make a diagram and I love it! diagramming is such a quiet superpower but it takes skill to know when and how to do it
abbycovert.com/product/diag...
We need to talk about notifications/ in-browser alerts and accessibility
06.12.2025 10:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting data on BBC of the countries where small boat travellers come from. Eritrea is very small country.
05.12.2025 09:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A delivery tracker that shows what stop you are on the driver's route. With a map indicating their location.
So much easier to plan around when WFH. Well done to the British Heart Foundation collections team.
Running workshops online then losing momentum and having to doordash is getting annoying.
You won Mark! Prize is in the post of a mansion tax exemption :)
30.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Digital ID beware! If only sticker creators got so animated about corporations tracking your detailed personal profile. Everyone complains about slow paperwork of bureaucracy but not willing to accept the solutions
www.instagram.com/p/DRr8VpBjei...
"The only thing that gets you shunned in New York society is poverty."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Pitch rolling or trailing or kite flying
27.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiro
TIL that one is the leading occultist of the early 20th century, and reader of palms to the hoi polloi of Hollywood was a Dublin lad calling himself Cheiro.
Get outta a that garden Cheiro
Gov budgets are tight - "do more with less" they say. But also don't get spread too thinly creating risks of failure.
20.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
no matter how many times I have to type "algoridim" into screens I always spell it wrong, then let the autospell fix it and then forget how to spell algorythm again the next time.
I do it with rythmic precision. (spot how many spelling mistakes)
Business France page with centre aligned content box
UI design has really gotten lazy. Content often now is centre aligned on webpages. Saw this first in the abundance of Wordpress templatery when media queries began as a convenient approach to mobile design.
But it's now become the norm. So oddly off, look at the "Our aim" content below
open.substack.com/pub/cutlefis...
@johncutle.fish expresses the feelings around the many gov digital teams
"No. Well, yes. But no. AI. I mean... people made things too complex.”
Detach instance, detach instance, detach instance...
Working in Figma always ends up this way.
I really think the best laid plans and good intentions behind figmas componentization just never really works.
Noticing a huge increase in websites and companies employing surveys and user research in the past couple of years. A good sign. Theory: the low interest rate mania of hockey stick user expansion is over were in an era of retention and value for the user
30.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0