‘human-centred Ai’ book with the ‘hu’ covered by library collection label.

Sounds about right

Glazed vase before firing

Glaze vase after firing. Pink opal band has almost turned transparent.

Close up of glaze melting after firing

Finally cracked the glaze layering effect. 8/10

Reducing flux from top to bottom 2:1

Claritin adverts: Proving LSD stimulates creativity since 1996 😅

💯 The community and training were great for attraction and retention.

Its helping me be accountable for lean documentation 😅

And hopefully useful to another human somewhere.

Vases Before firing

Vases after firing

White stoneware. Complicated layering of glazes. Mixed results. 6/10

Came for the jobs, stayed for the reading links. Some great ones this week @jukes.ie 💪

Thank you 💕

First kiln opening since Dec 🫣
#ceramics #glaze

Ceramic bottles with notes of glaze on them

Glazed ceramic oil bottles after firing

Oil bottles. White stoneware

Glazed bowl before firing with notes

Glazed bowl after firing

Flambé, pink opal, textured turquoise, honey flux.
With some splats of poppy & merlot to complicate things more.
#ceramics #glaze

Increasing amounts of clay on a desk

Increasing sizes of clay vases

Before and after shot.

I knew I should have waited for responses before sending it anyway 😂
I’m too impatient for my own good.

How do people feel about follow-up emails post interview?
Spammy or cute?

Government digital servicesX-GOVUK

Blueprint for modern digital government: “Create an inventory of services to measure the progress of service modernisation and publish a version of this in the open.”

Woop woop! 🎉

You’re welcome to start with this?

govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com

Exciting stuff 👏

Love Ursula 💕

Experiments in blobs
#ceramics

T’is the season for wrestling with personal website code
🎶 Fa la <8

It nearly broke me 😅

Lil walk-through from Open Studios last weekend.

Unglazed mug with guidance notes written over the top

Glazed mug with beach vibes from side

Inside of mug

Post holiday experiment. Subliminally recreated a beach
😭🏖️

A screen grab of the worst Capture ever invented. The user has to click through 12 pictures of dice to find the one that has dice that adds up to the number in another picture. Three times!

So much fresh hell in an interface.

Mug before firing with lots of dull layers of glaze

Mug after firing

New elaborate glaze combination

Glazed plate before firing

Glazed turquoise plate after firing

Before and after 2nd glaze firing.
Textured turquoise, blue rutile and flux.

Handmade large ceramic dish

Handmade ceramic dish leather hard

Shallow bowl (or large dish)

We chose London Wetland Centre, it was a very good price, beautiful venue and helped knowing all the profits went to the birds and otters 🦦

www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-cent...

Accessibility preference settings, information architecture, and internalized ableism Customization lives at the heart of accessibility.

“People don't think of themselves as disabled, so they don't think the accessibility preference area applies to them.” @ericwbailey.website

People who say “I don’t need accessibility” often don’t realize they already use accessibility settings or capabilities.

ericwbailey.website/published/ac...

Fixing a clay handle with a squidgy tool

Making sure the handle doesn’t fall off

Me admiring the results of a tedious job. Mug now has a handle.

Finally got a handle on these mugs ✅

I printed out a calendar for the next two months. On paper. So I could draw on it and work out what the hell is going on. Sadly it’s not because of my busy social life.