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robjmccarthy.bsky.social
Dad to some young'uns. Also doing some Lead Interaction Designer stuff at Ministry of Justice UK. Working on the MoJ Design System.
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Has any pre-and-post analysis of the efficiency drive been carried out on X (formerly known as Twitter)? I’m curious as to what the impact was on user experience, product revenue, business objectives, ethics, etc. Does anyone know?

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You first.

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Using Figma is a hill I’ll die on: medium.com/@robertjmcca...

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With a blueprint for modern digital government having been recently released, it got me thinking: what does an effective digital delivery model actually look like? I thought so much about it, I put pen-to-paper and wrote a blog post: medium.com/@robertjmcca...

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This week I sat down and wrote some thoughts down on the Blueprint for Modern Digital Government. Tldr? : Exciting, bold, and hugely ambitious. Bring it on. www.laurayarrow.net/blog/theres-a-lot-to-be-excited-about-in-the-blueprint-for-modern-digital-government

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Blueprint for modern digital government: “Create an inventory of services to measure the progress of service modernisation and publish a version of this in the open.” Woop woop! 🎉 You’re welcome to start with this? govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com

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Sorry to interrupt… but the MoJ Design System have released a component today. We now have an Interruption card in the Ministry of Justice’s design system, and I have to say it, but the work of the team is at another level. 🤩🤩🤩 design-patterns.service.justice.gov.uk/components/i...

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Morning @greateranglia.bsky.social 👋

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It’s easy encouraging teams to adopt a new component into a design system. Right?! It’s shiny… ooohhh aaahhh! But, how about encouraging adoption of an improved component, especially when a team already has said component in their product. Now that’s harder. 🧵

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

And so it begins… A bot has liked a post of mine on here. I don’t imagine there’s many scantily clad and lonely women looking for “friendship” on BlueSky that are also into design systems, but hey ho, I seem to have found one.

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People might disagree with this, but I think we need to remove A/AA/AAA or things like critical/severe/should/must, etc., from accessibility audit reports. They're abused as a mechanism for product and delivery managers to deprioritise as much as possible.

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I hear about people struggling to make a case for a design system in their org. I went through that pain. Without trying to sound like a know-it-all-knob, I think the key is to stop making a case for a design system. The people you’re making a case to don’t care. Instead make a business case.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone read anything compelling about the trend for design systems I’m seeing which is to “do less”, “make less”, and even go as far as “we’re not making anything new”? I don’t currently understand it. If there’s a need for a thing, why not make it/centralise it. I’d like to understand it.

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Great to watch this experiment being worked through in the open. Some very interesting insights @wholistics.bsky.social is uncovering about design systems within UK Government and Healthcare. I’m a big fan of making stuff to find out stuff. Great to see that in action here 👏

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*** BORING DAD INCOMING *** Swearing openly and repeatedly in public (like on a train) just feels so wrong to me. I’m a BIG fan of a swear word. It can be a hugely expressive and creative way to communicate. But, doing it so brazenly and unashamedly in public, just **** off already.

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I've been mulling on the question: Are design systems too slow? So much so, I've written a blog post about it. SPOILER ALERT: We have a problem with our design system. It's too slow! Read on: medium.com/@robertjmcca...

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I’ve been slowly writing a blog post about the pace of design systems, and now beginning to think I should transition it into a blog post about the slow pace of writing a blog post about the pace of design systems… 🫠

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Today was a good day 😎 The MoJ Design System team released a major update to an existing component, the Button menu. It's a highly used component across MoJ and wider government: design-patterns.service.justice.gov.uk/components/b... Love working with this team 🤩

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All the talks from Design System Day 2024 events have just gone live on the GDS YouTube. Check out the playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #DSDay24

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