100% wouldn’t recommend inheriting another PM’s product choices without understanding how they made them, choices they had and why they chose the direction they did. Decision logs aren’t just to hold yourself accountable and absorb any risk - it’s the whole context story. Log it. Please.

My favourite part of presenting at our annual conference today was being asked to talk about the most valuable thing the team has delivered this year. And deciding that I wasn’t going to talk about the features, performance testing, or scaling. I decided to talk about the people who did the work ♥️

What platforms are folk using to build, iterate and most importantly share their roadmaps? Mine is in Prodpad, but it turns out I can’t share it with anyone that doesn’t have a licence. Needs to be ‘government laptop friendly’…

Sunday Scaries - 7pm and right on time, in the bath, they hit me like a slap from mi Nana! Annual leave means low team capacity, no capacity senior leadership team, end of sprint, integration challenges, discovery timescales, a new delivery plan, security and scalability testing… What are yours? 🫣

Sitting in an interview today, a new user researcher to join the team. I’m there to provide context and answer questions about the project. ‘Standard questions’ were provided. Not a single one about experience in accessibility. Nothing about how would they recruit AT users. Nothing. Disappointed.

Put a days flexi-leave in today to start trying to find my 20yr old son a new room to rent in September, he’s been renting for a year now. It’s so damn hard for young people. And so expensive! £600-£700pm for a bedroom in a shared house, with 6 others. In Newcastle. What real chance do they have?

An invitation to pause, mid sentence, where the comma sits, to really create space around the message you’re trying to convey. I promise that the pause, however uncomfortable, will positively shift your status in the space. An invitation to try.

“Yeah but what do you mean by accessibility? Coz we work on an internal service…so it’s different.” No. No it isn’t.

ADHD burnout is no joke. One full day in the office equates to a 3 hour sleep on the sofa. Can only liken it to when your laptop just powers down and does a windows update… #adhd

Nowt will drain a high performing or high achieving person more than having to clean up after mismanaged incompetence.

Reminding my body that this is something I can do. 15 to 20mins of bag work at the end of a weights session has been a revelation. Like therapy. And a good calorie burn too. My technique is rusty, but still grateful that my body remembers how to move like this.

“Human involvement creates humane outcomes.” @amyhupe.bsky.social said this at @frontendnorth.bsky.social conference in Sheffield this week, and it’s really stuck with me. Succinct, brilliant and such a valuable way of framing the work.

Product managers/owners who are driving internal business strategic change… how much are you relying on change management? Arguments for and against.

Just two tired nerds on our way back from three days of phenomenal UX London conference learning, workshopping, talking, observing, listening and being inspired…bravo Clearleft. You folks sure know how to curate a conference! #UXLondon @craigabbott.co.uk

Day two of #UXLondon and very much looking forward to @craigabbott.co.uk’s talk!

Honestly, if ChatGPT were a person, I think they’d be a middle aged white dude. It’s staggering amount of times it delivers wildly incorrect answer with absolute confidence, rather than just admit it doesn’t know.

Our report on 3 years of #accessibility monitoring is live! 16,000 barriers removed across the UK public sector, the most common are contrast, focus, keyboard and reflow. Chris Heathcote's blog and link to the Government Digital Service report: accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/17/w... 📜 #a11y

Presented to a Judge today about making changes to appeal response documents to make them accessible. These are the conversations that make my job amazing 😇

Chopped my hair off. It’s giving Natasha Romanoff and I’m not mad at all 🧡👩🏻‍🦰

Talks. Best ones you’ve seen? What was great about them and what were they about?

Today’s affirmation: I can. I will. Watch me. What’s yours?

Hello. I’ve made the move official. Drop me recommendations, content, accounts to follow and communities to join…🦋