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Systems design, design systems. Content designer @SpringerNature. Previously @hippodigital @CoopDigital, @deptagency and @sankyinc.

United Kingdom
Joined October 2017
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Also, start the show earlier for god's sake. People have friends to see, trains to catch, they want to get a drink after or they want to get home.
Venues and promoters, for the love of all that is good and holy just post the fucking set times.
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Venues and promoters, for the love of all that is good and holy just post the fucking set times.
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Robots are cool. But when can they do stuff in an actually messy family home? Like when my labrador is jumping up at them, or when there's tons of stuff everywhere after we just got back from a trip. All the demos you see are in large environments free of many obstacles.
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Can everyone stop making the chat input look exactly like a search input please. Okay thanks.
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Alex Hall retweeted
system’s thinking
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Repost with no thought.
Have come to believe LinkedIn has the best sharing nomenclature. Think about it a little bit, or let 'er rip.
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Alex Hall retweeted
You can now pre-order the I Thought About That A Lot book! ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/sh… It includes 23 essays that we’ve published on ithoughtaboutthatalot.com between 2020 and 2023. As well as 3 that will be part of this year's advent calendar.
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This is what the Internet was like in the early 2000s if you had a really fast connection. A lot was rendered server-side and sent to you in pure HTML. No frameworks, no async calls, no trillions of minified Angular/React dependencies
how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?
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Nice workshop from @DaveConnis today, showing practical ways to use systems thinking in design work. Encourage everyone to check it out on @TheUXCC
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Stop making people create accounts for things, you bastards.
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I have some hearing loss and wear hearing aids. I can't really follow a TV show without captions. On the one hand they're more widely available than ever and that is welcome. On the other hand quality varies wildly.
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Often they don't sync properly. Or they only caption the non English speech. The one I find most annoying is where they've done half a job and parts of the dialogue will be missing from the caption. This is unfortunately very common.
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So, to anyone who works in TV or for a streaming platform, please caption everything well and test it.
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Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. I'll always remember his rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven on The Simpsons. I tried to learn it off by heart after this (I was, and remain, fun at parties). youtu.be/3w7xbuRAVus
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Predictable systematic touting and price gouging going on and that's just from Ticketmaster itself. Glad not to be an Oasis fan this morning.
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There's a shortage of blood. My wife tried to go and donate. Getting an appointment at an appropriate time was very difficult. She took our daughter with her. Told on arrival that you can't have a child with you if you're by yourself.
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Now, maybe we should have thought of it. What if my wife fainted? She has never fainted when giving blood before but you never know.
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But we just didn't think of it. I was working. It's the school holidays. My wife thought it would be good for my daughter to see the process of giving blood.
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