‘I should punch Grant Shapps’ 😆
02.03.2026 08:00
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‘I should punch Grant Shapps’ 😆
Heard of a scenario where a director level person responsible for transformation type work asked how the team go from user feedback to deploying (absolute basics). And he was completely shocked to hear that’s ’how long things take’.
This particular director is an ex-consultant from the big ones.
Love it! Quick, go nab the wikipedia page!
Is there a word for the following? When folk share inspirational posts about how to do product / design / dev well. But completely miss that they're doing the very thing the article says not to do.
A Service Designer showed me how he very quickly got Co-pilot to create a product overview video based on a word doc he put together. It wasn't perfect, but it did the job.
The 'I' and 'now' does the heavy lifting in that sentence.
I've had a few discussions with immigrants, and kids of immigrants who say this sort of shit. There's a lot to pick apart. And yet so much of it ends up circling back to selfsihness and self-grandure.
screenshot of the job page on civil service jobs
Nothing that there are a couple of weeks left for people to apply for a digital job that could be make or break for the NHS Director General for Technology, Digital and Data
Department of Health and Social Care
Here’s a screenshot as I’m pretty sure no one clicks past the ‘I’m not a robot’ page.
Managed to keep away from Liquid Glass this far. Then accepted an update at 5am in the morning after my kid woke me.
Oh, interesting. That I will bag.
I'll take it - anything to support my Friday morning theory 😀
A bet: at some point, most of us will work with at least one person who was once a primary or secondary school teacher.
Arguably more likely to happen in gov.
Sadly, because if they don't, Farage and his lot will be in charge?
Truth be said, we all deserve better. But look at what happened across the pond when decent people just gave up. And others gave in to their worst traits.
‘But in the 2020s, not validating ideas is amateurish.’
Interesting, nice share!
It’s a great sculpture isn’t it. You probably already know but just in case, it’s a good prompt to learn about Birmingham’s history with bull baiting and industrialism.
Bet ChatGPT could make me believe I understand this after a few exchanges. 😅
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Some other things that make it tricky:
- The surplus of debt is vast, and teams rarely get to go back
- Sometimes you have to re-design the whole flow, not just add iteratively to individual pages
- Users often reference what they know, making it hard for some teams to discern what is needed
Living this atm and agree with a lot of it.
On the cause-remedy point, I think teams often lock themselves into an approach too early because some teams measure tangible progress in the form of screens. There are a number of reasons, e.g. delivery pressure, IxD preference, screen-focused UR, etc.
Wowzers! In the office today and I hadn't realised we were at the stage where folk take laptops into the loo while on calls (facing the urinals with cam off)! 🤯
Their slogan in response goes something like, ‘we need to train our own (geniuses)’. 😭😆
Hands up if you have an AI team in your org who are knocking on everyone's door looking for problems that hopefully* AI can help 'solve'? ✋
Eeek! The Delivery Manager on LinkedIn kicking off a debate about innocent until proven guilty in the context of Andrew Windsor being stripped of his titles 🫣
Just discovered caramelised Jalapenos. 😋
D/E : Donald / Elon
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Zuckberg
ABCD heading followed by vertical list of Austerity, Brexit, Covid and Donald black text on yellow background.
Building on @viviane49.bsky.social
100% - my mind went to the orange man-child and no-kings protests. Honestly, the more I think about the whole thing, there are so many learnings to be had about history and current times!
And then there's the fireworks fun vs the climate emergency. Think, I'm going to do the safety of sparklers and to show them an alternative by using bubbles and coloured floodlights. Also, if of interest, there's a good activity involving glow-in-the-dark bubbles (glow paint + black light).
Oooh, that sounds interesting! I would take my kids to that, guessing not in London?
My challenge is that the other side sought to use violence to stop the terrible Royals. We teach my kids about this, but it's trickier for 4 - 6-year-olds of other people's kids. 😅
