Dean Vipond
@deanvipond.bsky.social
Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
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Again: the project is clearly to drive trans women, in particular, out of public life altogether.
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Again: the project is clearly to drive trans women, in particular, out of public life altogether.
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Can anyone recommend any Chief Product Officer or similar, that has worked in the healthcare or education space and have experience growing a product from scratch? We’re looking for someone special to join our board that cares deeply about users - any recommendations or ideas appreciated ❤️
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Can anyone recommend any Chief Product Officer or similar, that has worked in the healthcare or education space and have experience growing a product from scratch? We’re looking for someone special to join our board that cares deeply about users - any recommendations or ideas appreciated ❤️
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 3
‘Baubles,’ 1964
Artist: Frank Hampson
‘Baubles,’ 1964
Artist: Frank Hampson
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 3
‘Baubles,’ 1964
Artist: Frank Hampson
‘Baubles,’ 1964
Artist: Frank Hampson
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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like
artist Rowland Hilder
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The Science and Media Museum in Bradford used to be this, back when it was the museum of Film, TV, and Photography, before the Science Museum Group took it over, drained it of funding, took all the good stuff off to put in storage in London, and replaced it with "interactive experiences".
A museum of TV and film history could open on the edge of North London, after the local council offered £2 million towards the cost of building it.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bor...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bor...
Borehamwood set for major new museum honouring EastEnders, Star Wars and Hitchcock
A museum of TV and film history could open on the edge of North London, after the local council offered £2 million towards the cost of building it.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Science and Media Museum in Bradford used to be this, back when it was the museum of Film, TV, and Photography, before the Science Museum Group took it over, drained it of funding, took all the good stuff off to put in storage in London, and replaced it with "interactive experiences".
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2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
My amazing startup idea, called “Folkswerve”, is where freshers give me their phone, I give them a burner, and put all the phones in a cargo bike and just ride between campuses and the Tesco (and the occasional pub). Upgrade options include mundane insta shots of local places, etc.
I don’t know what’s worse here, the free advertising for adult stalkerware or the Beeb normalising it as an act of family love.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Are tracking apps OK for parents to use on adult children?
An expert says parents need their children
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My amazing startup idea, called “Folkswerve”, is where freshers give me their phone, I give them a burner, and put all the phones in a cargo bike and just ride between campuses and the Tesco (and the occasional pub). Upgrade options include mundane insta shots of local places, etc.
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On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
On every public policy committee I sat on - gambling, drugs, animal experiments, law of homicide and others - someone would ask ‘But what would the Daily Mail say about our recommendations?’ I now regret that we never gave the right answer. ‘We shouldn’t care.’
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There’s a big sale on for a week @rosenfeldmedia.com, including on my book “Surveys That Work”
If you’ve wondered about buying it, here you go
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/survey...
If you’ve wondered about buying it, here you go
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/survey...
Surveys That Work By Caroline Jarrett
Design better surveys with Surveys That Work. A practical guide to reducing errors and getting accurate results through a seven-step process.
rosenfeldmedia.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There’s a big sale on for a week @rosenfeldmedia.com, including on my book “Surveys That Work”
If you’ve wondered about buying it, here you go
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/survey...
If you’ve wondered about buying it, here you go
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/survey...
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I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I wrote a bit about this many years ago on Twitter-that-was: the algorithm has gradually eroded "here's what you want to see" by replacing it with "here's what we'd like you to want to see."
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
It continues to trade on its former reputation solely due to inertia. Underneath, it's all ads.
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🚨 Tickets ARE LIVE for After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash (link in comments) 🚨
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚨 Tickets ARE LIVE for After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash (link in comments) 🚨
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
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In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, a dilemma that’s familiar to many: read the instructions or rush it?
Pro tip, and National Audit Office advice for many years: design the instructions so that people can start straight away, using instructions as they need them as they rush.
#FixTheForms
Pro tip, and National Audit Office advice for many years: design the instructions so that people can start straight away, using instructions as they need them as they rush.
#FixTheForms
Parental dilemma:
Do I *actually* read the 88-page PDF "Parental Guide to school admissions 2026-27" or just wing the application and hope for the best?
Do I *actually* read the 88-page PDF "Parental Guide to school admissions 2026-27" or just wing the application and hope for the best?
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, a dilemma that’s familiar to many: read the instructions or rush it?
Pro tip, and National Audit Office advice for many years: design the instructions so that people can start straight away, using instructions as they need them as they rush.
#FixTheForms
Pro tip, and National Audit Office advice for many years: design the instructions so that people can start straight away, using instructions as they need them as they rush.
#FixTheForms
Before midnight mass, don’t forget the other solemn Yuletide ceremony.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Before midnight mass, don’t forget the other solemn Yuletide ceremony.
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Piccadilly Circus
The Ladybird book of London,
1961
Artist: John Berry
The Ladybird book of London,
1961
Artist: John Berry
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Piccadilly Circus
The Ladybird book of London,
1961
Artist: John Berry
The Ladybird book of London,
1961
Artist: John Berry
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I see so many images on Bluesky that I'd like to repost but don't because they have no alt text. So many!
I know we've been conditioned away from courtesy and kindness online, but a little effort with alt text goes a long way
I know we've been conditioned away from courtesy and kindness online, but a little effort with alt text goes a long way
July 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I see so many images on Bluesky that I'd like to repost but don't because they have no alt text. So many!
I know we've been conditioned away from courtesy and kindness online, but a little effort with alt text goes a long way
I know we've been conditioned away from courtesy and kindness online, but a little effort with alt text goes a long way
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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As someone who worked in tech through the dotcom crash, I've been thinking a bit about how public-service orgs were great incubators of digital talent in the early 2000s. Fanciful as it seems, the BBC and C4 were basically hotbeds of talent development and risk taking.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As someone who worked in tech through the dotcom crash, I've been thinking a bit about how public-service orgs were great incubators of digital talent in the early 2000s. Fanciful as it seems, the BBC and C4 were basically hotbeds of talent development and risk taking.
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
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TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
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At this pivotal moment in the intersection of technology, culture and public policy, who better to steer the conversation and help us prepare for this shift in our thinking than @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, who we welcome back to the #CampDigital stage next year.
🔥 #CampDigital: Meet our speakers!
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social is a researcher & strategist driving inclusive, community‑powered innovation & exploring the social impact of emerging tech. She is the founder of Careful Industries.
🎟 Early bird tickets at:
www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital...
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social is a researcher & strategist driving inclusive, community‑powered innovation & exploring the social impact of emerging tech. She is the founder of Careful Industries.
🎟 Early bird tickets at:
www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital...
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
At this pivotal moment in the intersection of technology, culture and public policy, who better to steer the conversation and help us prepare for this shift in our thinking than @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, who we welcome back to the #CampDigital stage next year.
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Astonishing
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Astonishing