Joe Lanman
@joelanman.bsky.social
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Design Lead at UK Government Digital Service Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit https://joelanman.com
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joelanman.bsky.social
It's a designer's job to design for people who use
- screens
- screen readers
- screen magnifiers
- touch screens
- trackpads
- voice input
- keyboard-only
(a non exhaustive list)
#a11y #accessibility #design
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bleary.off-the-records.com
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
joelanman.bsky.social
SHAPIRO: So would you ever agree to a contract that saw any role for AI at all?

SIMON: No, I would not. If that's where this industry is going, it's going to infantilize itself. We're all going to be watching stuff we've watched before, only worse.
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spavel.bsky.social
There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.

This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.

AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
"Just doing things" is not a path to value
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
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jaythechou.bsky.social
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
Paddington in The Wicker Man (1974)
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Wasn't expecting quite so much Jeff
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Where'd he get the baboons?
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I think Jeff Goldblum would have been good in What We Do In The Shadows
joelanman.bsky.social
Tonight's film: The Fly
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hetanshah.bsky.social
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
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brunodias.bsky.social
Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...
So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter
In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill
azhdarchid.com
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tetralogical.com
We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.
HTML/SR Support lookup
tetralogical.github.io
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dxw.com
dxw @dxw.com · 6d
By having better alternatives to dashboards, can we nudge stakeholders towards other, more appropriate formats?

Melissa’s latest blog post explores why dashboards are often the default for reporting, and poses some questions to consider before jumping in to creating your next one tr.ee/hAOA6Z
Maybe you don’t need a dashboard
Dashboards can be powerful—but they aren’t always the answer. Melissa explores whether a clear, one-off analysis can tell the story far better than another chart on a screen.
tr.ee
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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theharvestmaid.bsky.social
The sexists do not listen to the audiophile lighthouse keeper because she is a woman. If I lived in a small town with a female audiophile lighthouse keeper, I'd heed her advice on literally anything

Should I dump him, queen?
Which cheese should I buy, queen?
Fight the fisherghosts tonight, queen?
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sjoy.lol
Day 5: remix - this one took me far too long!

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