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Things I found interesting 27 Feb – 25 Mar 2025 Follow ↗ The Outline newsletter from Design Week. There are too many newsletters I feel (though I understand why), but this one is brilliantly done by Design Week. A daily update of interesting sni…

More interesting and lovely things. Plus a few angrier ones than usual. documenteering.com/2025/03/25/t...

Interesting 2025 Short talks about interesting things

🚨 Attn: Bunting/Minutiae enthusiasts!!! Get a ticket to Interesting 2025, while ye may! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interestin...

Lots of good snippets in this thread. All classic points, and worth reiterating to ensure that less experienced (and more sheltered) designers understand the duality of good UI design.

The UX paradox: Why demand keeps growing I nearly scrolled past this ‘UX is Dead’ post, trying not to take what looked like clickbait, but the idea that ‘UX is evolving’ is one that I thoroughly agree wit…

Nearly scrolled past a "UX is Dead" post on LinkedIn, trying not to take what looked like clickbait, but the second line – "UX is evolving" – caught my eye, as I thoroughly agree. Full thoughts here: documenteering.com/2025/03/12/t...

I think you might also enjoy the Quiet Posters feed in that case.

Realised it's just two months to Interesting conference. Very much looking forward to it. Wonderfully inspiring yet deeply unassuming. If you're unsure what it is – but you're curious – then it's 100% for you.

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Donella Meadows on success to the successful loops While awaiting the arrival of The Limits to Growth (a 2004, 30th year update version I found on World of Books ), I’ve been looking around the web for articles and snippets on Donella Meadows…

A little rabbit hole, starting with Donella Meadows and systems thinking, ending at BLM and triggering board games.

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The state of websites? Too many redirects occurred There’s an independent builders merchant near me that I try to use instead of the big national chains. I was wondering what they had in stock, so had a quick search for their website. Search term: …

A bit on businesses without websites. An increasingly common (and sad) state of affairs for the independent web.

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Hostile architecture - Wikipedia

I’m with you, and more with the phrasing of ‘shit design’ (just thoughtlessly exclusionary) rather than hostile design (actively exclusionary) a la en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile... Although, technically, shit/thoughtless tends to be the norm… so maybe that is ‘normal design’ 🤷

The secret economics of Dungeons & Dragons YouTube video by Phil Edwards

@timharford.ft.com you might enjoy the latest from @philedwardsinc.bsky.social youtu.be/E7G_33sXJeI?...

I feel like I’m having some reverse Mandela effects. Things I can remember that are real but seemingly no one else remembers them.

Peut-être - Wikipedia

Furthermore, was it just me and some friends that saw this movie that the song was in the soundtrack of? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peut-%C...

Screamin.J Hawkins - Maybe YouTube video by Bamboor

When the titles start in every episode of Severance it reminds me of this tune. I can’t find anyone else making the connection. Just me? youtu.be/hTVJF5ORuLQ?...

Happiness YouTube video by Steve Cutts

And "the story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfilment." Relatable. Brilliant work that I 'enjoyed' revisiting.

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Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers? YouTube video by Chris Spargo

Including a wonderful little geeky video about a detail of British history that would be so easy to ignore and never think of.

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Things I found interesting / 5-26 Feb 2025 Follow A new section for my interesting collections. Coming after feeling particularly grateful for people that share things I wouldn’t have otherwise found. It’s a delightful experience that remin…

Things I found interesting / 5-26 Feb 2025

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The difficulty of understanding when ‘easy’ things are difficult This began as a short post, that got longer, and added to, and added to some more, before becoming a seemingly messy collection of disparate opinions. There’s a thread running through it thou…

A post that started small but that I struggled to stop. Got there in the end. documenteering.com/2025/02/25/t...

Jeffrey Lewis - Do They Owe Us a Living YouTube video by David Apmartlet

Nothing to add other than sharing this great cover that your post made me thing of :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWU-...

Lorem Ipsum DT! for today

@iainbroome.com Saw this one and thought of the struggle to explain what content designers do, and why content first thinking can kinda be useful at times. A good example/explainer to share with doubters. Clever old @designthinking.lol

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A multicoloured elaborate journey map illustrating the narrative options from a choose your own adventure book, showing multiple options, routes, forks, and end points. Some dotted lines jump forward, some end points end very quickly.

Could be interesting to map out the path a project took, alongside imagined possibilities with different events or decisions being made. Kick-off goes well, or terribly. Client team changes completely, or remains consistent. Key stakeholder leaves, or more join in. A D&G like project retro exercise!

These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books If you decide to see more, click on this story.

Searching for a particular flowchart meme just now stumbled on this instead. Cool to see these adventure books mapped like this. I always imagined authors would effectively write them this way. Hit me also how navigating big projects always feels like a CYOA

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyo...

Blockchain

On first read… this seems really sensible. It would make a good “Should I use AI” decisions making flowchart, with almost every flow ending up at ‘No’! Which is likely a good thing. A bit like xkcd.com/2267/

“A unique blend of evolutionary psychology and strategic leadership insights.” Found via @ewebber.bsky.social so instantly took the recommendation and downloaded it. Oh my days, vvv good. It’s correlating with so many experiences, thoughts and beliefs! All in a 'good confirmation bias' way, I think

A salient reminder of what UCD people should aim for. But, even more importantly I think, it's a brilliantly concise phrasing to remind us of what we're trying to sell to clients, and how boring and skeptical they must feel about it!

Boring magic Thoughts on digital government, its inherent politics, and humility in design.

I keep coming back to the idea of 'boring magic'. It's known well in some circles, but I think it's worth more than being an in-joke that we nod in humorous agreement to.

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I found the entire UX of this so impressive last year that I couldn't resist a rather over excited write up 😅 documenteering.com/2024/04/11/o...

Any news on those opinions? Would be interested in your take on the Blueprint

Which very much relates @dandoescontent.bsky.social to this, which I found via your Like (Thanks) bsky.app/profile/dean... "mostly persuasion rather than making stuff." Also great is Tom's response, "You're challenging and shifting an organisation's fundamental belief system."

Also, on the topic of first words, my twins both said 'MORE!' which isn't a noun, although to be fair, the object they were after was more food!