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Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
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The next Bond movie will be titled "Time to Die Mister Bond, Handcrafted Artisanal Film Movie for Men – Perfecf Christmas Gift and Funny Realistic Spy Gag, Harmless Entertainment Prank for Kids and Adults, Realistic Vanilla Scent 7.9 Ounce Motion Picture (Pack of 1)"

“a tendency to impose purity tests on those they will campaign with, overestimating how many people share their views, and using language that is inaccessible to the wider public is potentially driving a backlash against progressive causes rather than helping them to win people over”

Not the headline we need right now…

While I appreciate this is unusual, does anyone have an enterprise webinar set-up that they aren't using on Wednesday? (!!) The waiting list for this event is getting pretty long lu.ma/qijpvfnl and we can only support 150 people in the @carefultrouble.bsky.social google meet

Could you please RT? @jacattell.bsky.social @buttansma.bsky.social 💥💥 Thursday 27th of February 💥💥 Our 3rd event is Miriam Levin from Demos, on 'Involving citizens in policymaking' and ​Sarah Crandall from DSIT, on 'The new GDS'. ​ At the MoJ or online. Register here : buff.ly/42MOZcf

Bit of a break from weeknotes to share this personal post about being Welsh, but not speaking Welsh. Sorry for the thought piece 🤣 www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/being-a...

Not that any of the currently elected Nazis will believe this “woke” research but if we can ever wrest our systems out of their sweaty, grasping hands, let’s keep in mind that solving health issues for the most needful has positive systemic effects for everyone.

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Filename of the day: 'Single Source Of Truth (v2).xlsx' Most of government is mostly version control most of the time

Love this article on content-first design. Clear and practical. Useful to. Interaction designers and content designers alike. www.dittowords.com/blog/how-to-...

UX Scotland returns to Edinburgh in June. Call for Sessions is open: uxscotland.net/call-sessions Super Early Bird tickets are on sale until Friday: uxscotland.net/tickets

Hello 🙂 I'm looking for my next public sector role and would appreciate your support. Let me know if you hear of anything or wanna catch up. #OpenToWork 💼 Preferably agile delivery manager. 📜 Open to contract, permanent or temporary roles. 🌎 Remote or based in Manchester, London or Sheffield.

The morris dancers are presumably there for dancing-upon-grave purposes

Colleagues and I spent much of a 3 month discovery on NHS appointment booking documenting all the ways it ISN’T (and can’t be) like booking a plane ticket. Despite senior Drs who should know better thinking it was.

The detailed answer from @daivaughan.uk is a brilliant case study in why making government services natively 21st Century Digital is “more complicated than that”

Love this… Perhaps “but can you do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?” should be part of every public digital role interview

There's been recent focus on hiring designers from big-name tech companies (lnkd.in/eEjxq8EQ). Their skills are impressive, no doubt. But in today’s climate of cost-saving, organisations need designers with the hard-earned experience of a transformation. www.katherinewastell.com/blog/designi...

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain

We moved my poor Mum with dementia from Oxfordshire to a nursing home in Yorkshire. She had no idea what meal anything was ever again

Jack's laws of content (1 of X): Left unchecked organisations will produce more content than they can maintain

btw if you've never read Roger Ebert's review of The Mummy it's so good it changed me as a person

£126bn and 2.4 million people. That’s the size of the creative industries in the UK and every DCMS Minister has had to fight HMT and Number 10 over support. That’s about 10x the size of the motor industry and 4 x more productive. Fishing? Less than £500 million.

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Small teams are my fave kind of teams. They get more done, everyone works together and there’s less change of any misunderstandings

I’m really struggling with sandwiches are what you have for breakfast…

Also relevant to tech tours of duty in gov…