Could anyone in HE who has gone through a redundancy process or consultation share their experience with me? Heard last week the tsunami is heading our way and I’m feeling completely lost. Solidarity and sympathies to everyone else in this crappy boat.

This blog post is great - I think sometimes it's all too easy to jump to prototype testing but I'd defo love to see more tree tests and cloze tests as they seem even less used than highlighter tests medium.com/kainosxd/user-…

Something I find weird is that corporate booking systems haven't arranged for Travelodge wifi codes. I then have to decide if I can:
- expense it (we have no corp phones and I refuse to tether off my own phone) or refuse to work in hotel
- even make it work as it's 2 devices only

Looking back - a weeknote, starting 8 April 2024 link.medium.com/whbUU6AiNIb

Going through Bitesize, user-centred design e-learning 🍰 content training - some great practical tips e.g. on use of bold and tone - that I haven't seen so explicitly written down before (it's somewhat implicit in other style guides)

What I got up to on my week off medium.vickyteinaki.com/revived-a-week…

Getting PTSD from reading other people's group project conversations

Funding opportunity for 'organisations specialising in racial justice and/or gender justice, registered AND delivering work in Northeast England, Wales, West Midlands and/ or Yorkshire and the Humber'

3-5 yr funding pot, £200k-£450k

Occasionally someone replies to this thread, and it reminds me that the story of his life would make an amazing Netflix series.

Sir Quentin Blake has produced a series of illustrations about family relationships, for display in prison visiting halls where children meet their incarcerated parents. @jasonswettenham Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

Remembering the time I was at a party in England and a posh girl was like 'When I say UK I mean England bc who gives a fuck about the other places'. She then clocked I was Scottish and said the worst possible thing you can say in that situation: 'Apart from Edinburgh, obviously!'

*to the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire*

Hatred of various systems forcing me to use particular PIN and password settings. Don't make me change my systems, just put in 2fa

Remember when we used to (and might still) build for 'mobile-first'? I think we need to do that but use 'assistive tech first'. We did some user segmentation research that found the number of people using assistive technology is significantly higher than we thought.

Humans are too cool to be true

Boss of the Williams F1 team 'appalled' to find Excel being used to track 20k car parts. I'm not shocked AT ALL to hear this. In *every* org we find Excel being used for stuff it was never designed for. (1/🧵) arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/f…

My first and biggest lesson in framing was when I saw my uncle asking 3 children who wanted to take a bath and they all squirmed and loudly yelled NOOOO and then he asked 'Who wants to be the FIRST! to take a bath?' and they literally started fighting to be the first

Billie Piper on L*urence F*x in British Vogue. Love her so much. Greatest to ever do it.

Most designers love a tooltip.

They’re a cheap way to declutter your UI.

But they don’t improve UX, they degrade it.

Here’s 3 better patterns that you can consider instead:

One for anyone else who held their breath as kids while parents negotiated these helter skelter style car park exits 🫣 #Teesside #Brutalism

A weekend of pure indulgence with Mandy Payne’s new book (see below)

Extra-Ordinariness of Ordinariness, #Billingham by Mandy Payne😍