@mathewwilson.me.bsky.social
UCD/UX focused designer and educator. Helping people rethink 'design' and their approach to it. Based in Stroud/London – mathewwilson.me – Using Bluesky mostly as a link feed
I’ve long loved this blog for this sort of thing 👌 usesthis.com
12.04.2025 20:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More interesting and lovely things. Plus a few angrier ones than usual. documenteering.com/2025/03/25/t...
25.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 Attn: Bunting/Minutiae enthusiasts!!! Get a ticket to Interesting 2025, while ye may! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interestin...
20.03.2025 07:49 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Lots of good snippets in this thread. All classic points, and worth reiterating to ensure that less experienced (and more sheltered) designers understand the duality of good UI design.
12.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nearly scrolled past a "UX is Dead" post on LinkedIn, trying not to take what looked like clickbait, but the second line – "UX is evolving" – caught my eye, as I thoroughly agree. Full thoughts here: documenteering.com/2025/03/12/t...
12.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think you might also enjoy the Quiet Posters feed in that case.
11.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Realised it's just two months to Interesting conference. Very much looking forward to it. Wonderfully inspiring yet deeply unassuming. If you're unsure what it is – but you're curious – then it's 100% for you.
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A little rabbit hole, starting with Donella Meadows and systems thinking, ending at BLM and triggering board games.
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A bit on businesses without websites. An increasingly common (and sad) state of affairs for the independent web.
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I’m with you, and more with the phrasing of ‘shit design’ (just thoughtlessly exclusionary) rather than hostile design (actively exclusionary) a la en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile... Although, technically, shit/thoughtless tends to be the norm… so maybe that is ‘normal design’ 🤷
03.03.2025 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@timharford.ft.com you might enjoy the latest from @philedwardsinc.bsky.social youtu.be/E7G_33sXJeI?...
02.03.2025 21:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel like I’m having some reverse Mandela effects. Things I can remember that are real but seemingly no one else remembers them.
28.02.2025 20:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Furthermore, was it just me and some friends that saw this movie that the song was in the soundtrack of? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peut-%C...
28.02.2025 20:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When the titles start in every episode of Severance it reminds me of this tune. I can’t find anyone else making the connection. Just me? youtu.be/hTVJF5ORuLQ?...
28.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
And "the story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfilment." Relatable. Brilliant work that I 'enjoyed' revisiting.
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Including a wonderful little geeky video about a detail of British history that would be so easy to ignore and never think of.
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Things I found interesting / 5-26 Feb 2025
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A post that started small but that I struggled to stop. Got there in the end. documenteering.com/2025/02/25/t...
25.02.2025 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nothing to add other than sharing this great cover that your post made me thing of :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWU-...
25.02.2025 10:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@iainbroome.com Saw this one and thought of the struggle to explain what content designers do, and why content first thinking can kinda be useful at times. A good example/explainer to share with doubters. Clever old @designthinking.lol
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A multicoloured elaborate journey map illustrating the narrative options from a choose your own adventure book, showing multiple options, routes, forks, and end points. Some dotted lines jump forward, some end points end very quickly.
Could be interesting to map out the path a project took, alongside imagined possibilities with different events or decisions being made. Kick-off goes well, or terribly. Client team changes completely, or remains consistent. Key stakeholder leaves, or more join in. A D&G like project retro exercise!
12.02.2025 11:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Searching for a particular flowchart meme just now stumbled on this instead. Cool to see these adventure books mapped like this. I always imagined authors would effectively write them this way. Hit me also how navigating big projects always feels like a CYOA
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On first read… this seems really sensible. It would make a good “Should I use AI” decisions making flowchart, with almost every flow ending up at ‘No’! Which is likely a good thing. A bit like xkcd.com/2267/
12.02.2025 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“A unique blend of evolutionary psychology and strategic leadership insights.” Found via @ewebber.bsky.social so instantly took the recommendation and downloaded it. Oh my days, vvv good. It’s correlating with so many experiences, thoughts and beliefs! All in a 'good confirmation bias' way, I think
12.02.2025 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A salient reminder of what UCD people should aim for. But, even more importantly I think, it's a brilliantly concise phrasing to remind us of what we're trying to sell to clients, and how boring and skeptical they must feel about it!
12.02.2025 10:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I keep coming back to the idea of 'boring magic'. It's known well in some circles, but I think it's worth more than being an in-joke that we nod in humorous agreement to.
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I found the entire UX of this so impressive last year that I couldn't resist a rather over excited write up 😅 documenteering.com/2024/04/11/o...
12.02.2025 09:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Any news on those opinions? Would be interested in your take on the Blueprint
12.02.2025 09:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Which very much relates @dandoescontent.bsky.social to this, which I found via your Like (Thanks) bsky.app/profile/dean... "mostly persuasion rather than making stuff." Also great is Tom's response, "You're challenging and shifting an organisation's fundamental belief system."
11.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Also, on the topic of first words, my twins both said 'MORE!' which isn't a noun, although to be fair, the object they were after was more food!
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