Profile avatar
benbrignell.com
Independent product designer, strategist, UX, coder, sketcher, illustrator and dependent gardener at https://benbrignell.com. Design systems and alt text. My onions are my own. Generally a neo-generalist. Zone 9a.
15,844 posts 892 followers 229 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 21 Comments 29

My friend just asked me to call him back next week as he is in Greece at the moment. I said “I didn’t know you that you went to the audition”.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

There is a common misunderstanding about what OOO means in the workplace. It’s often attributed in a calendar to meaning “Out Of Office” but it’s actually the sound you make when you see that somebody is on holiday for two weeks.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Be the pufferfish you are within

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Venn diagram

submitted 8 days ago • 145 comments

A messaging app for stinging insects with a narrow waist and a predatory or parasitic lifestyle called Wasps App.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

💡 A holster for a WD40 straw so that you never lose it

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Doing my bit for the environment: I just used a teaspoon to get some Branston Pickle then used the handle of the same spoon to remove a teabag. The old me would have used and washed up two teaspoons.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

If a wasp lived in a cottage would it go for black and white striped curtains or something a bit different (like black/yellow polka dot)?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever anyone mentions Manuka honey I can’t help but reply “Your nuka honey?”. And this is why I have no friends or family.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Ever opened a pack of hotdog buns assumed they weren’t already pre-sliced, sliced them yourself but the opposite way to the presliced slice and ended up with a pile of hotdog buns which were just long useless slithers of bun? It happens to the best of us.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Flies can 1. Find their way in 2. Not find their way out

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone good at identifying teeth? Just dug up this. Yes, I can probably use an app to identify it but that’s a bit boring. 🌱 🦷

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

76 hours of prep for the first barbecue of the year which takes 12 minutes to cook

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

My 9yo just said “I think I know what A.I. actually stands for. Absolutely Irritating.”

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I once saw Judith Chalmers buying a suitcase

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

When life gets weird. Currently about to drop off a bridesmaid dress and pick up a battery for a lawn tractor with my car parked in the same location.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Pet Sounds. Best album in the world. Worst album cover in the world.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe this was fifteen years ago. I would have said 3-4 tops. www.theguardian.com/science/2009...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Dishwasher flavoured tea

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Hey are you ok, you've barely touched that Miro board you made us stumble around for 2 hours?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

We will look back on this brief era of AI chat boxes being shoehorned into the corners of our screens and cringe; like Y2K, Tudors using sugar for toothpaste, all dance crazes, the “Let’s get social” song, trepanning, the miracle material that is asbestos, “Wassup!”, astroturf in gardens, planking…

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments