This is devastating news, everyone in the design community will miss Vicky
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This is devastating news, everyone in the design community will miss Vicky
I've drawn up a set of principles for approaching web accessibility. I hope they help to frame your work as we enter 2025. github.com/Heydon/princ...
Lots of good points about why design systems are vital but also realism of when it's ok to break out of the design system. As it says, if sticking to the design system means damaging the user experience, something has gone very wrong.
www.belkadigital.com/blog/why-des...
Probably because they were slowly falling out of popularity over time on Twitter and other platforms so people haven’t rediscovered them on here
Watch out for those pesky leaves
It is a similar situation with cookie banners. Most public services you have to accept/decline cookies multiple times as you switch between systems as they don't have a shared understanding of the user preferences
Temporarily helping the i.AI team starting this week for design support of Consult, an AI-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations. Using topic modelling and LLM to analyse consultations - interesting ideas ai.gov.uk/projects/con...
Discoveries can feel like walking through an open field, refreshing, until you realise it is also a minefield
Hi, the next #DesignSystemChat is on
📆 Tuesday 29 October 2pm-3pm.
It's a WCAG 2.2 special:
▶ How we’re helping users meet WCAG 2.2
▶ How service teams are complying with WCAG 2.2 guidelines
▶ Discussion: How are you making progress towards WCAG 2.2?
🎟 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...
There is a lot of work to do around how do we talk and share about the design of internal digital products within government. What and how that looks like is unclear. But I suspect that more time will be spent on the back office processes in the future as the frontend of services matures
This is free, and pretty simple to do. Organisations should totally do it 👇🏻
The recently updated guidance to using progressive enhancement when building UK government services is very welcomed. It has a good balance of being clear but not prescriptive about creating a good frontend service www.gov.uk/service-manu...
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Closes 30th October 2024
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Setting aside the asking for information that is not needed, the design could do with some tweaking 👀
I reckon we're entering a new "golden age" of browser plugins, long gone RealPlayer and Flash. Now we have plugins to handle cookie consent, remove intrusive annoying adverts and redesigning whole UI's to make the web a bit more bearable mgearon.com/blog/fixing-...
It’s never too early for a mince pie
Is there also a hidden or a dependent trust: relying on others, organisations or an underlying technology that contributes to the operation of the service. I'd say this is the riskiest one, as it can often go unnoticed until it goes wrong, such as the CrowdStrike outage
I have yet to be disabused of the notion that retros are basically team therapy, they are the work you do to ensure you continue *to* work, and if you don't do them (or don't take them seriously), they will come to you, but with extra shouting
Completely agree with the post. You don’t have to take a side between Automatic (Wordpress) and WP Engine to know that being able to forcibly take over a popular plugin, give no notice to users and then auto update people onto the new plugin is probably not a good thing for security
Lots of good talking points from @tsmz.bsky.social about what the digital centre for government might mean. Fascinated about what information flowing from a distributed edge towards the centre could look like ghijklmno.net
Listless GP data Sir, Leslie Scott (letter, Oct 11; Thunderer, Oct 10) mentions the failure of NHS computer systems to communicate. More importantly, there is no consensus on how to record clinical events across primary care: it is left to individual practices. Until there is a consensus, robustly applied and audited, the old adage "garbage in, garbage out" will continue to apply. Andrew Rigby GP, Tewkesbury, Glos
Excellent letter from a GP in today's Times. As a patient I'll only benefit from the joining up of my data if all clinicians describe the same things in the same way.
(Joining up the myriad "IT systems" is necessary, but very far from being sufficient.)
Between the Internet Archive being down and exposing information from 31 million unique email addresses and the flame war between Automatic WordPress and WP Engine over rights and usage it has been a busy week for the web
Trying to pull all/most of the responses to this together, I've put together some of my own reflections on the big questions around the "digital centre" here: connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/10...
So exciting to see this all starting to gather some momentum and collaboration around it - the digital gov community has the beginnings of some potentially very excitable and optimistic vibes around it for the first time in a little while just now…..
We need to rethink how internet bots access, use and reference (or lack of) our content. We can block, or at least put off, some scraper bots that are used for AI uses but it feels like it's a bit of an all or nothing solution mgearon.com/blog/blockin...
So, gang, I am in this group helping DSIT put some flesh on the bones of a future vision for digital public services, and what being the digital centre for government means. Hit me up with your reckons / pointers. www.gov.uk/government/n...
What does the internet want from a new Digital Centre for the UK Government?
It's a two-post kind of a day! Here's my summing-up of all the responses to @jenitennison.com's ask for input into a new vision for digital government
www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/what-d...