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Design strategist, service designer, ux researcher and designer. Recently discovered generalist. An American living in the UK.
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Only 2 spaces left for our March 'Content Design Fundamentals' course. For those wanting to refresh their skills, or people who are new to content design. Also popular with copywriters, digital marketers, and those working in communications. Streamed live 10 - 4pm, 10-11 March buff.ly/45NDmzY

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

Well, it looks like they’re fixin to crash the economy, but at least you won’t have to see a black person at work.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Today I learned there's a passionfruit Snickers bar in Brasil

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

#SussexSquad Watch Invictus Games 2025 live here: www.youtube.com/live/vAU5wGB...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤

[opens Disney+] ok sweetie do you want to watch the Lion King, Mary Poppins or Night Bitch

Turning half the planet into data centers just to reinvent the concept of imaginary friends

mewy cwismis

I dream that one day drivers will have the same patience for me crossing the street that they do waiting for a parking spot 10 feet closer to the mall entrance.

Clio is Anthropic's new system for identifying AI risks that it hadn't thought to look for — what it calls the unknown unknowns. I talked with team that built it and share for the first time the top three ways people use Claude www.platformer.news/how-claude-u...

We're starting to write a blog about a great thing my team are working on. An accessibility annotations library for Figma for the GOVUK design system. We'll be open-sourcing it, so let me know if you'd like to try it before we put it out into the wild. It's a brilliant piece of work!

This is an excellent food based metaphor regarding why it’s okay to limit bad actors’ attempts at crashing into conversations or your life.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

none of these words are in the bible!!!!!

I really need to get better at finding pleasure in being alive and simply existing, rather than constantly thinking "If I can just get through this ordeal..." and "If I can just get past that deadline..." Then what? The next ordeal or deadline, and repeat, until death?

It's the day after Thanksgiving and I'm researching some content design and IA heuristics, as you do. Does anyone have any helpful resources for developing content heuristics for products or apps? Sharing six of my favorite examples in the thread… 👇

Every time a recipe calls for 1 clove of garlic, I'm like, Did a vampire write this?

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry