Mike's week notes are always excellent, but this one is extra, extra good.
02.02.2026 19:31
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Mike's week notes are always excellent, but this one is extra, extra good.
I tried the government's new 'AI Skills Hub'. Let's just say I was underwhelmed.
tommorris.org/posts/2026/t...
If Bilbo had Chat GPT
The front of a nail salon called "Nail Shop Near Me"
Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation
Maybe everyone else in the multidisciplinary team has the job of balancing, but I've definitely seen lots of examples of non-software job roles where the inconvenience of real life context rarely intrudes π
Ha I just said exactly this without reading your comment. I think there definitely are!
Excellent read! I think all of this applies to service design at large too. Eg
"Real cΜΆoΜΆdΜΆeΜΆbΜΆaΜΆsΜΆeΜΆsΜΆ services are typically full of complex, hard-to-predict consequences. If you want to make your change safely, that typically constrains your implementation choices down to a bare handful of possibilities"
Marco Pierre White making an 18 egg Spanish omelette topped with 12 fried eggs and truffle shavings is just deliciously mad. Includes gems such as "try to understand being an egg in a pan"
youtu.be/sBYCckRqldM?...
At the NHS weβre teaching designers how to code with the NHS prototype kit, instead of using visual tools like Figma.
Find out why in the blog post below! π
Glorious.
Also, researcher's hair is pleasingly nest like.
All I want to do is make some nice food while putting in zero love or care, and compromising significantly on the required ingredients. Is that really too much to ask?
That's skyfall
"Most digital transformations donβt start with turning analogue processes into digital ones.
The challenge now is taking 30 years of hybrid manual and digital processes and products and somehow trying to make them better." π―
Some of the best user research findings are things that seem blindingly obvious once you find them out.
Also shout out farming today which my gran put on incredibly loud at 5:45 every morning, waking up all house guests, before herself falling back to sleep until at least 8:30.
Am I alone in my enthusiasm? Or is it just that recommending a radio programme makes you sound 100 years old?
Great lives, from our own correspondent, life scientific. Also one off series like the coming storm, is psychiatry working, influenced.
Add to playlist, makes me feel smart, plus they are just so bloody enthusiastic about music
More or Less, makes me feel smart, plus Tim Harford' voice is just very soothing.
Potentially deeply unfashionable but I still prefer radio 4 to podcasts. So many great programmes, so little effort to find them.
This is why I am convinced dehumidifiers are next year's air fryers. It is simply impossible for me to resist recommending them at *every* opportunity
Fun take on why Bluesky works and Threads failed
Me again! This time not really answering you question. Are you sure you need a recruitment agency? Usertesting.com can be used quite effectively as a recruitment tool, or even cheaper, have you thought about building your own panel?
This is exactly the content I was looking for from my twitter replacement. Wouldn't get this on linkedin would you?
Β£40 - Β£60, but context matters a lot (as always)!
I would say this, but I honestly think meeting some real people with a problem and then actually fixing that problem does this better than anything. I don't think that happens nearly as much as we like to imagine.
Baader-meinhoffing the Dunning-Kruger effect big time at the moment
Let out a small involuntary yelp of excitement on discovering there is a new series of couples therapy on iplayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0b8knbw
Fun question! Cafe in an area with very low foot fall, maybe one or two customers an hour max. Serving a very limited menu with stuff like beans on toast. Clientele mostly ordering tea over coffee.
