Will Myddelton
@myddelton.bsky.social
Product manager these days. Previously a designer, researcher and even once wrote bad front-end code. Sometimes writes at myddelton.co.uk
First day working at DEFRA through Public Digital. Most of it has been spent trying to remember how to use Windows so far :)
May 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
First day working at DEFRA through Public Digital. Most of it has been spent trying to remember how to use Windows so far :)
But all things must end, and new things must begin ☀️
May 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
But all things must end, and new things must begin ☀️
My time here over 12 months has coincided with me exiting the startup I spent the last three years working my heart out on and my dad getting sicker and then dying last year
It's been a tough time
So I'm grateful to Sport England and my team for the chance to find some calm focus inside the storm
It's been a tough time
So I'm grateful to Sport England and my team for the chance to find some calm focus inside the storm
May 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
My time here over 12 months has coincided with me exiting the startup I spent the last three years working my heart out on and my dad getting sicker and then dying last year
It's been a tough time
So I'm grateful to Sport England and my team for the chance to find some calm focus inside the storm
It's been a tough time
So I'm grateful to Sport England and my team for the chance to find some calm focus inside the storm
Leaving Sport England today to start something new in a couple of weeks
It has been a *trip*
Learned loads, made mistakes (obvs), but ultimately left the Movement Fund in a better place and created and honed a beautiful multidisciplinary team along the way
❤️❤️❤️
www.sportengland.org/movementfund
It has been a *trip*
Learned loads, made mistakes (obvs), but ultimately left the Movement Fund in a better place and created and honed a beautiful multidisciplinary team along the way
❤️❤️❤️
www.sportengland.org/movementfund
The Movement Fund | Sport England
Sport England's £160million Movement Fund provides crowdfunding pledges, grants and resources to help projects that encourage active lifestyles.
www.sportengland.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Leaving Sport England today to start something new in a couple of weeks
It has been a *trip*
Learned loads, made mistakes (obvs), but ultimately left the Movement Fund in a better place and created and honed a beautiful multidisciplinary team along the way
❤️❤️❤️
www.sportengland.org/movementfund
It has been a *trip*
Learned loads, made mistakes (obvs), but ultimately left the Movement Fund in a better place and created and honed a beautiful multidisciplinary team along the way
❤️❤️❤️
www.sportengland.org/movementfund
Weirdly I've made a later life change and have gone back to putting reverse-dates at the start of filenames to make them sort better. I don't think I've done this since my 20s - since then I flirted with no-sort filenames but mostly I've been numbering
Lots of meetings I guess
Lots of meetings I guess
April 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Weirdly I've made a later life change and have gone back to putting reverse-dates at the start of filenames to make them sort better. I don't think I've done this since my 20s - since then I flirted with no-sort filenames but mostly I've been numbering
Lots of meetings I guess
Lots of meetings I guess
Amacht Anocht especially. Can't get enough of that beat
April 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Amacht Anocht especially. Can't get enough of that beat
Kneecap ♥️
Brilliant film
Tunes
Brilliant film
Tunes
April 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Kneecap ♥️
Brilliant film
Tunes
Brilliant film
Tunes
Trying out Günes in Walthamstow in my latest attempt to find Green Lanes outside Green Lanes
April 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trying out Günes in Walthamstow in my latest attempt to find Green Lanes outside Green Lanes
"11. Minimise environmental impact"
Props to @miakepia.bsky.social and co for updating the design principles!
services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/a...
Props to @miakepia.bsky.social and co for updating the design principles!
services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/a...
Adding sustainability to the Government Design Principles
We’re adding a new design principle for sustainability. This will help teams take responsibility and ownership for the sustainability of services.
services.blog.gov.uk
April 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"11. Minimise environmental impact"
Props to @miakepia.bsky.social and co for updating the design principles!
services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/a...
Props to @miakepia.bsky.social and co for updating the design principles!
services.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/02/a...
So just a huge thank you to everyone doing information architecture 🙏
And a little reminder for me to remember that Bluesky is a bit more like old Twitter in that sometimes posts get unexpected reach and I should be more careful how I frame things 🫣
And a little reminder for me to remember that Bluesky is a bit more like old Twitter in that sometimes posts get unexpected reach and I should be more careful how I frame things 🫣
April 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
So just a huge thank you to everyone doing information architecture 🙏
And a little reminder for me to remember that Bluesky is a bit more like old Twitter in that sometimes posts get unexpected reach and I should be more careful how I frame things 🫣
And a little reminder for me to remember that Bluesky is a bit more like old Twitter in that sometimes posts get unexpected reach and I should be more careful how I frame things 🫣
I should add the caveat that in my time with the small IA consultancy I worked with 10 years (!) ago, we did have success here and there. It was just really hard finding clients who could comprehend the value. But orgs who get it do exist.
April 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Some of us have just staunchly refused to leave
Also, bring back information architecture. It's the root of so many issues at all my workplaces. We miss you 💔
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
but, the fewer the people pitching it, the less likely the world *knows* out skills exist.
correction, it's not none, but you generally have to rely on your network to know you do it in order for work to come in.
correction, it's not none, but you generally have to rely on your network to know you do it in order for work to come in.
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
IA coelacanth here, it's going fine so far.
Also, bring back information architecture. It's the root of so many issues at all my workplaces. We miss you 💔
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
So it was really heartening to hear a bunch of people pointing out that it's not dead, they're still doing it. I loved hearing all of this and am gonna quote those replies here in case they're heartening to others too ❤️❤️❤️
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
So it was really heartening to hear a bunch of people pointing out that it's not dead, they're still doing it. I loved hearing all of this and am gonna quote those replies here in case they're heartening to others too ❤️❤️❤️
Just to be clear about me missing information architecture at the places I work...I'm not saying IA is dead, or no one does it any more! I'm more saying that (in the places I work) it used to be discussed as often as service design, interaction design, user research but recently it's less visible :(
April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Just to be clear about me missing information architecture at the places I work...I'm not saying IA is dead, or no one does it any more! I'm more saying that (in the places I work) it used to be discussed as often as service design, interaction design, user research but recently it's less visible :(
Great to hear! I didn't mean to imply no one was doing IA any more at all - more that it's mostly disappeared from the context of the places that I work compared to 10 years ago and it's a crying shame - but I'm sorry if it sounded that way :(
April 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Great to hear! I didn't mean to imply no one was doing IA any more at all - more that it's mostly disappeared from the context of the places that I work compared to 10 years ago and it's a crying shame - but I'm sorry if it sounded that way :(
That is definitely work that is needed. But I also think IA skills in framing what people might align around, or commit to, are often missing/undervalued. Often we are trying to align to weirdly constructed concepts, which makes it harder to align/commit etc
March 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
That is definitely work that is needed. But I also think IA skills in framing what people might align around, or commit to, are often missing/undervalued. Often we are trying to align to weirdly constructed concepts, which makes it harder to align/commit etc
Did not expect this to be the day when I experienced an outpouring of love for IA ♥️
March 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Did not expect this to be the day when I experienced an outpouring of love for IA ♥️
Basically, as always, it's the "agree something concrete between ourselves" that is the hard part!
March 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Basically, as always, it's the "agree something concrete between ourselves" that is the hard part!
Yes indeed! And lots of the hard is bound up in agreeing the list/lists of "things" in the first place. Naming gets a little easier after that (I think?)
March 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Yes indeed! And lots of the hard is bound up in agreeing the list/lists of "things" in the first place. Naming gets a little easier after that (I think?)
Yeah this was my suspicion but I would be very happy to be wrong :)
March 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yeah this was my suspicion but I would be very happy to be wrong :)
I like that correction, thank you :)
March 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I like that correction, thank you :)