A path of purple and yellow tulips through tree trunks and greenery. It looks like a flowery river!

Spring price reductions on my modular online pathways to #UserCentredDesign and #ContentDesign this weekend!

£65 each, usual price £95.

cakeconsultancy.com/cake-courses

🎂 🍰 🫖

#Training #UCD #DigitalTransformation #Design #Courses

We will be attending the Tech Futures Summit in Gloucester 18th March! It’s inspiring to see so much energy around building a thriving tech community in Gloucestershire!

#TechFutures #GloucestershireTech #Community #PublicSectorInnovation #UserCentredDesign

Weeknote 41/2026 TL;DR Researcher Access Service design playbacks, diary juggling and a spotlight on user centred design

#Weeknote 41/2026 | TL;DR design playbacks, diary juggling and a spotlight on #usercentreddesign medium.com/@adam.coulso... #weeknotes @rds-scotland.bsky.social

The Justice Hack – B.C.'s largest access-to-justice hackathon! We're back! Help us hack for a good cause at our popular access-to-justice hackathon.

💡The Justice Hack💡is on Oct. 25 & 26!

Over a weekend, teams will plan, prototype & pitch ideas to improve access to justice. This year's focus is on employment & workplace rights.

Learn more: thejusticehack.org
Sign up: bit.ly/4gJqwcO

#hackathon #usercentreddesign #legaltech #accesstojustice

My draft content comprised 100% clear language to make the info as accessible and user-centred as possible, but metaphors and puns were added in by the client. Sadly the supplier I was working through agreed to those.

#Content #InformationDesign #Accessibility #ClearLanguage #UCD #UserCentredDesign

#InMySteelCaps #WHS #DigitalSystems #UserCentredDesign #SafetyTech #WHSGuard #RealWorkRealRisk

🤝 Built with and for #data users

The Data for London Library was designed with London's data community - councils, civil society, tech leaders.

Launching in beta means we keep improving with your feedback 4/5

#UserCentredDesign #CollaborativeGovernment

Text graphic: Festival of Digital Health South West England and Wales. Bristol. A Crash Course on HCI in Digital Health. Friday 4 July. 09:30 - 12:00. Unpacking what user-centred design and human-computer interaction looks like in digital health. Workshop leads: Emily Nielsen, Matt Wragg

If you work in digital health and you're unfamiliar with HCI approaches, sign up for a free place: lnkd.in/eNNGSMjD

📆 Friday 4 July
🕤 09:30 - 12:30
📍 In-person (Bristol Digital Futures Institute)

#HCI #HumanComputerInteraction #DigitalHealth #UserCentredDesign

You're doing insight wrong if your business needs a 40-slide deck to "see" the research. Bring the user into the room. Quotes. Clips. Numbers. Put it in the design work, not in a folder.
#Designsky #HMW #UXResearch #UserCentredDesign

You don’t need a research budget to get closer to your users. Use reviews. Surveys. Customer support. Just start and build it.
#Designsky #HMW #UserCentredDesign

Creating the proper feedback loops — Semple.Studio If there's one mechanism at the heart of user-centred design, it's the feedback loop. A tight loop between idea, test, and refinement is how good design becomes excellent. The faster we can cycle thro...

This one builds on my last post. Once UCD is in motion, keeping it going is the real challenge. I’ve shared how better feedback loops can help teams stay on track and keep designing for people using your product.
semplestudio.com/jotter/creat...
#UXDesign #DesignLeadership #UserCentredDesign

If you're successful, you'll be joining DWP's active and supportive #UserCentredDesign Practice, made up of content designers, interaction designers, service designers and user researchers.

#Hiring Associate Content Designers

£37,497 - £38,373
plus 28.97% employer pension contribution

Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield

Apply before 11.55pm on Wed 2 April 2025 at www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

#ContentDesign
#UserCentredDesign
#Junior

"Transformation needs more than technology" is my main take away from 2 intensive days.
I didn't hear a process or op model transformation -- only "digital transformation". Perhaps "digital" is too sacred, a unicorn?

#ProductivityParadox #UserCentredDesign #DigitalTransformation #Rewired25

That's good #UserCentredDesign right there from my excellent colleagues.

Check out this blog post for an insight into the detail we go into to design digital services well.

dwpdigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/07/17/d...

#Hiring Senior Content Designers for DWP

£55,557 - £66,058
plus 28.97% employer pension contribution

Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield

Apply before 11:55pm, Sunday 30 March 2025 at www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

#ContentDesign
#UserCentredDesign

Be part of DWP Digital's active and supportive #UserCentredDesign Practice.

Apply for our #ContentDesign roles before 11.55pm on Monday 10 March.

We send our interview questions 5 days in advance as standard and welcome discussions about reasonable adjustments to interviews.

‘Task-based intranet content’ book: now published, Cake Design Studio My practical, step by step guide to user-centred intranets is now published. It’s the only book out there on creating task-based intranet content, and is written by a DCMS award-winning intranet co…

Thanks to the 2 people who bought my #intranet book in February! 😅 If you’re considering getting it, just go for it – I’ve had very positive feedback.

#ContentDesign #UserNeeds #TaskBasedContent #UCD #UserCentredDesign #ContentTransformation #StaffInformation #InternalComms #Comms #HR #Digital

Free content tools and resources, curated by Cake, Cake Design Studio Free content tools and resources.

Added 3 extra links to my list of free tools and resources on the Cake site. Thanks @madebymarian.bsky.social for flagging Inkscape to me.

#Content #ContentDesign #UCD #UserCentredDesign #Design #Digital #DigitalTransformation

6 Content Design roles at DWP Digital!

Up to £45,081 plus 28.97% pension contribution

Birmingham, Blackpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield

Hybrid working

Apply by 11.55 pm on Monday 10 March

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

#ContentDesign
#UserCentredDesign
#hiring

2-factor authentication by email plus SMS is all very well, as long as you haven't lost your phone, and are trying to sort that out! 😅

Uber, AirBnB, Apple, 02 👀 looking at you! I'm sure this goes for many, many other comps too.

#UCD #UserCentredDesign #ServiceDesign #Digital #UnhappyPath #EdgeCase

Reviews and reports, Cake Design Studio Outsource content checks and reports with our external, expert support. Content usability and accessibility review What is it? We assess a representative sample of your content against: your users’…

I’ve been reviewing #content since 2008. Contact Cake to have yours quality checked, whether it was produced by machine or human.

#ContentStrategy #ContentDesign #Copywriting #UXWriting #AI #HI #ContentReview #ContentCheck #2i #QA #QualityAssurance #DigitalTransformation #UCD #UserCentredDesign

Including:

* How do you test and get qualitative feedback from babies?

* The ways in which music sounds different to people with amusia

* Why we listen to music (it varies per person)

Scientific method + appreciating the diversity of human experience = magic 🤩 #UserCentredDesign

"We have had a software upgrade".

"Oh great, that means things will be easier, better, more secure", said no-one, ever.

But why not? As a digital industry we should be designing, building and upgrading around user needs, and it should be a delight to have an upgraded system.

#UserCentredDesign

Cake Design Studio | UCD freelancers Find skilled, experienced user-centred design professionals who work on a contract, project or ad-hoc freelance basis.

Contractors, trainers, other freelancers – next update to Cake #UCDFreelancers Directory is 30 Jan. Apply by 28 Jan.

Already in? Donate £20 via Ko-fi to keep listed.
WE ARE NOW 28 👏

#UCD #UserCentredDesign #Design #Digital #UserResearch #ServiceDesign #ContentDesign #ContentStrategy #GraphicDesign

🌟 Meet Unboxed!

A digital agency with 20 years’ experience turning ideas into impactful realities.

What we do:

🔍 Research user need
🚀 Design & build lasting solutions
💡 Empower teams with agile skills
🔧 Maintain & adapt product

#Innovation #DigitalTransformation #UserCentredDesign

One of the best 'jobs' I ever had was spending 3 hours at City University in London making training materials for and speaking to their trainee optometrists and opticians about my experiences. I got £75 an hour, cash.

18 years ago, before I'd heard of #UserResearch or #UserCentredDesign.

Ich erinnere mich an die Debatten und Change Prozesse, die mit #DesignThinking und #UserCentredDesign vor ca. 15 Jahren in der Autoindustrie kamen. Ähnlich scheint sich die Baubranche nun die Frage zu stellen, was ist der eigentlich Sinn und Zweck unserer Arbeit? Ist das nur bauen oder können […]

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#UserCentredDesign #Design #Digital #DigitalTransformation #ContentDesign #ServiceDesign #UserResearch #Data #Development #MultiDisciplinaryTeams #Agile #UCDDirectory

Great round-up of podcasts from @sophiedrouet.bsky.social for anyone working / interested in the user-centred design of charity and public sector services. Great to see Healthia's new podcast, Problems Worth Solving featured 🥳

#podcast #UserCentredDesign #ServiceDesign #Charity #PublicServices