I thought a swede was a head. And a turnip, well, a veg of course :)

Totally warranted 😄 This brightened my day today, thanks for sharing.

There's so much to take in here.I mean, what's that teddy doing? I can't tell if they're an innocent bi-stander or deeply involved 😄

When I worked at a well-known London gallery I refused to let Richard O'Brien (Crystal Maze original OG) into a member's private view - because he wasn't a paying member. He spent 10mins trying to convince me. I was having none of it.

This is a terrific takedown from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social on what we ought or ought not to be teaching children about English

Tl;dr he thinks the current exam for 11 and 12 year old children is nonsense

But please enjoy reading thus highly justified rant

#ContentDesign
#PlainLanguage

Absolutely loved this rant Caroline. Thanks for sharing.

Developing standards and accessibility guidance Improving services by making standards and accessibility simple

@kerry1yons.bsky.social and I were asked to write an article for #servicegazette about our work on standards and accessibility guidance over the last couple of years. We're pleased to say you can now read the online version that was in the recent print version.

medium.com/the-service-...

A small pile of newspapers on a wooden table next to a vase with colourful flowers and a cup; a person with a salmon-coloured shirt starts to pick up a copy — the newspaper's masthead says ‘The Service Gazette’; the headline next to several arrows says “Digital service resilience”

For the cover story, @hillaryh.bsky.social wrote about ‘Digital service resilience’ & what endures when government innovation units close

You can find her text & those of @richardpope.org, @kubabartwicki.bsky.social, @loudowne.bsky.social, @andyjones.bsky.social, @kerry1yons.bsky.social online soon

Excellent question, we are in touch with GDS and they are aware of this work. We are exploring whether this helps teams in DfE in the immediate, with a view to review whether there is a need for it in the future as content in the GOV.UK service manual is iterated.

DfE has published a plain language standard to support teams in digital delivery. We worked in the open, shared with GDS, and are exploring whether it can help add weight to the use of plain language: dfedigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/19/i...

Love your sketches Paul. Real Food for the soul.

Thank you for sharing. It's nuts how it isn't diagnosed for so long. I remember a doctor leaning over me in an A&E bed saying, 'you're very keen to get to the bottom of this aren't you? But on paper there is nothing wrong with you!' As I was detailing - now I realise - all endo-related symptoms.

You're welcome, and thank you for reading. I feel lucky that I feel ok now. It's crazy how long it can take to get diagnosed. Hope you are ok now too.

Thank you for sharing your health journey, it's crazy how long diagnosis seems to take. Am so pleased you've been much better since.

Thanks so much for letting me be part of this @amymcnichol.bsky.social ❤️

I'm 100% back to ready 😊

Thanks so much Ellie, that means a lot.
I was thinking, the more people that know about the olde pouch, the better!

Do you know what a pouch of Douglas is? If you don't, find out in my short advent blog. It could come in useful one day...

www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/my-pouch-of-douglas

#endometriosis

Thanks Ben, we've been working on this in community time on Thursdays and will share more soon once we've taken in iterations. We're in touch with GDS too.

Argh! Two of my favourite product people together! Just the best ❤️

It absolutely will. It's in early draft stages and the hope is it will give our content designers another tool to their kit. We're in touch with GDS and other gov departs too.

@ideasintheround.bsky.social mate, thank you for this :) There is a lot of work going on, taking it one step at a time and in touch with GDS too.

Screenshot of a lucid board of a heading stating Draft DfE plain language standard with several post it notes with comments.

I'm part of a group of content designers across DfE services and GOV.UK content that are drafting a plain language standard. We've based this on need and xgov conversations. Today we shared with our community. Feeling invigorated for the next stage #standards #servicestandards

Kerry Lyons on LinkedIn: Design Ops in DfE Weeknotes Design Ops in DfE have just kickstarted full user-centred design work for private beta for our service assessment service. We've had a lot of xgov interest in…

Read about our service assessment service work from Kerry - our amazing content designer.

www.linkedin.com/posts/kerry-...