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acuity.design
Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him
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Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals: No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion. It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports. If it is, it’s not compassion. It’s eugenics 🧵

Another chat with mum about spam/phishing emails. If it scares you, it’s spam Delete anything immediately that causes distress. Don’t engage with the emotional narrative of the criminal.

Riots in both the places we’re staying this weekend for wedding

Who needs Blofeld to rule the world?

Old account book from 1860’s. I think this is the annual income of ancestor running nail factory in Stirling plus rental income

Me in the 70’s Serious glare face ✅ Beige/brown clothes ✅ Hand-knit tanktop ✅ Flares ✅

Hello again to France…

Defensive Architecture meets hostile behavior

How you welcome people to a place, digital or physical, or project defines the invitations people can accept and the agency they feel. Walking workshops are simple yet powerful way of exploring this sense of being and meaning.

Finishing BBC Jane Austen series, the way that her life circles around Mansfield Park is strange. She cannot let go of its failure

King Charles’ ex-girlfriend funds Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

1971 Doomwatch episode currently on Talking Pictures TV is about regulations, business & economics. A factory developing new metal needs investment to prevent poisonous fumes leaking across town. Is it worth it? Why not leave country & avoid regulation? Is poisoning a city but keeping jobs better?

Amazon Prime Video adverts are both specific and weird for me. I have no aircraft and no need for ground maintenance services and yet I get adverts for AOG (aircraft on ground) partners. Is this because I watched Top Gun Maverick?

One piece of ‘stretchy noodles in workshops’ advice: buy thicker ones if you’re working with people who may be unruly. The thinner the noodle the more it can be used to hold, stretch, let go and flick at another person. Thicker ones just stop.

Every opponent of Trump's GOP is a foreign invader. There is no space for anything else but violent suppression.

The waste that the techbros still believes must exist (when fraud and abuse is proven to be minimal) is in thinking that government preparedness for sudden massive changes, like wars/natural disasters/economic crashes, is bad planning. That only a lean organisation is an effiecient organisation.

micro:bit foundation looking for young people who are interested in more accessible ways to code. Can you help? switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/06/help... #dev #a11y

I leave stretchy noodles on tables in workshops now. Never explain why, just let them be there. Feedback is positive as people discover that they help both with thinking and dealing with boring bits. 1/2

Farage raising Death Penalty as issue (but saying he’s against it). This is just the Wedge Issue politics he’s succeeded with before. Make something that most people do not care about into something where you are demanded to be intensively right or wrong. Make a hard wall between people 1/2

Our product's new core design metaphor makes it an inaccessible visual mess, you'll need to set up your devices to reduce or eliminate it to be usable. #WWDC25 #LiquidGlass

What the hell does ‘Uber for getting off Antidepressants’ even mean?

Will American self-driving cars in UK just have a ‘Drive on Left’ button? Won’t the driving models be fundamentally flummoxed by the switch. Drive on the Right being deeply embedded.

#DieHard on #LiquidGlass interface Do we really need semi-transparent low contrast UI? Really?

There are just a few spaces left at our free #SelfAdvocacy event on Friday! Learn how to empower people and communities by helping them to speak up for themselves and their rights, as well as how to use self-advocacy resources. To book a free place, please visit tinyurl.com/empowermentsa

Halfway thru FT article on online right-wing radicalisation of UK teen it mentions mother’s live-in partner was an American White Supremacist.

If you're based in Bristol and work in UX/design you might be interested in this event on Thursday 26 June. It's organised by 'Ladies that UX' and generally highlights female speakers, but is open to everyone. www.linkedin.com/events/inper...

Watching #WWDC25 with kids because we find the hand gestures very funny: mostly big box/little box or slicing

But WTF does that even mean?

Oh stop it with all the innovation #WWDC25

LA has that Belfast sense of militarised police settling in for a long term relationship with population where valid protest is continuous and repression thru ‘non-lethal’ violence is stable reaction.