mathewwilson.me
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
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I’ve long loved this blog for this sort of thing 👌 usesthis.com
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I think you might also enjoy the Quiet Posters feed in that case.
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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’ 🤷
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I feel like I’m having some reverse Mandela effects. Things I can remember that are real but seemingly no one else remembers them.
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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...
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And "the story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfilment." Relatable. Brilliant work that I 'enjoyed' revisiting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dZ...
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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.
youtu.be/0NHv6owsCvw?...
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Nothing to add other than sharing this great cover that your post made me thing of :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWU-...
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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!
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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/
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A 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!
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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...
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Any news on those opinions? Would be interested in your take on the Blueprint
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Which 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."
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Also, 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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"There is so much potential, but it involves big changes in ways of working and thinking"... That's a perfect way to describe the act of selling and doing design! Our job is as much about finding and designing methods to change cultures and ways of thinking, as it is about IA, UX, SD, etc.
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A bit more on Thriva, my journey with cholesterol management, and some rather off piste digressions about UCD design exercises and roundabouts. A very Friday piece of procrastination.
documenteering.com/2025/02/07/t...
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Dammit! I wasn’t checking the hyperlinks 😅
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I give up, I can't get it, please help @peterkwells.com !
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OK, feeling embarrassed now, but I'm leaving this up rather than deleting... The #:~:text= embedded URL highlight page text trick works on any page. Looks to have been possible since around 2020, perhaps? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
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Thanks to @pixlz.com for reminding me of the doorway effect AND showing me that it's possible to create wikipedia links that highlighted specific page text! Just add #:~:text= followed by a direct paste of the copied page content you want to highlight.
bsky.app/profile/pixl...
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Likely because you’ve done a brilliant job of it! And not only with how well it’s written. The signup process is also impressively well done. Great UI and content design throughout. I’m yet to test the Unsubscribe screens to see if you’ve perfected that process also though! I’ll resubscribe after 😅
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Did anyone *actually* do them?
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A twist on Conway’s law. Duckworth's law... Change consultants mirror the culture of their clients, even when hired to change that culture?