More interesting and lovely things. Plus a few angrier ones than usual. documenteering.com/2025/03/25/t...

🚨 Attn: Bunting/Minutiae enthusiasts!!! Get a ticket to Interesting 2025, while ye may! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interestin...

Lots of good snippets in this thread. All classic points, and worth reiterating to ensure that less experienced (and more sheltered) designers understand the duality of good UI design.

Nearly scrolled past a "UX is Dead" post on LinkedIn, trying not to take what looked like clickbait, but the second line – "UX is evolving" – caught my eye, as I thoroughly agree. Full thoughts here: documenteering.com/2025/03/12/t...

Realised it's just two months to Interesting conference. Very much looking forward to it. Wonderfully inspiring yet deeply unassuming. If you're unsure what it is – but you're curious – then it's 100% for you. russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/202...

A little rabbit hole, starting with Donella Meadows and systems thinking, ending at BLM and triggering board games. documenteering.com/2025/03/05/d...

A bit on businesses without websites. An increasingly common (and sad) state of affairs for the independent web. documenteering.com/2025/03/03/t...

@timharford.ft.com you might enjoy the latest from @philedwardsinc.bsky.social youtu.be/E7G_33sXJeI?...

When the titles start in every episode of Severance it reminds me of this tune. I can’t find anyone else making the connection. Just me? youtu.be/hTVJF5ORuLQ?...

Things I found interesting / 5-26 Feb 2025 documenteering.com/2025/02/26/t...

A post that started small but that I struggled to stop. Got there in the end. documenteering.com/2025/02/25/t...

@iainbroome.com Saw this one and thought of the struggle to explain what content designers do, and why content first thinking can kinda be useful at times. A good example/explainer to share with doubters. Clever old @designthinking.lol designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/lorem-ipsu...

Searching for a particular flowchart meme just now stumbled on this instead. Cool to see these adventure books mapped like this. I always imagined authors would effectively write them this way. Hit me also how navigating big projects always feels like a CYOA www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyo...

“A unique blend of evolutionary psychology and strategic leadership insights.” Found via @ewebber.bsky.social so instantly took the recommendation and downloaded it. Oh my days, vvv good. It’s correlating with so many experiences, thoughts and beliefs! All in a 'good confirmation bias' way, I think

I keep coming back to the idea of 'boring magic'. It's known well in some circles, but I think it's worth more than being an in-joke that we nod in humorous agreement to. visitmy.website/2020/01/08/b...

I've used thriva.com since 2017 and their testing box still delights me every time! Such a fun mechanism. The instructions could easily fit inside a regular box... so it's fairly pointless if you think about it practically... but in this case, sod practicality, we need more delight.

📼 Why Is Everything Binary? My latest on briefs.video. briefs.video/videos/why-i...

Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social says a wonderfully convincing yes! And I couldn't agree more. My excited thoughts on it: documenteering.com/2025/02/04/d... Or just watch John's indirectly dyslexic affirming video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80SC...

"Human beings love to predict the future, but we’re quite terrible at it. So how about punishing all those bad predictions?" – Some design related thoughts from revisiting (the very old) Folly of Predictions episode of Freakonomics. documenteering.com/2025/02/04/h...

Things I found interesting / 11 Jan – 4 Feb 2025. Gaps are getting longer between these as I struggle to document all that I find interesting. The curse of curiosity? Or just dopamine addiction 🤷‍♂️ documenteering.com/2025/02/04/t...

I wonder if a similar phenomenon occurs when a project team passes through their final deck presentation. “People tend to forget items of recent significance immediately after crossing a boundary, and often forget what they were thinking about or planning on doing.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway...

100% echoing @iainbroome.com’s hearty recommendation of this. Predominantly a content design lens on trauma and dyscalculia, but the conversation creates a brilliantly layered argument for more active empathy in all areas of design. Not just Content/Service/UCD accessiblenumbers.com/trauma-infor...

“Every person deserves an environment where their unique needs and strengths are accommodated...” A great explainer for leaders/HR teams. Empathetically, I wonder if there’s a form of neurodiversity in people that struggle to see the benefit of advice like this? ndconnection.co.uk/blog/recruit...

One of the most thoughtful, and so in turn, one of the best blogging platforms I've ever seen. Last day and a half to catch this offer. Still more than worth it if you miss it though. Do it. Start that blog / website you keep putting off. It doesn't get easier or safer or nicer than this.

Maybe the Paperclip Maximizer Theory is happening, but with Nvidia GPUs. An AI, programmed with the objective of producing as many as possible, has manipulated billionaires and destabilised the world in order to create a craze for more processing power. I bet it's annoyed with DeepSeek if so.

I wrote this a few days before hearing about Vicky’s death. My admiration and love of her work remains. She was clearly a widely loved and respecting individual. See more of her influence here: bsky.app/profile/priy...

Great to see this getting a write up. It might seem jokey subject – to be moaning about taps – but it’s a brilliant and relatable lens for anyone to consider the state of contemporary design. How can things be getting worse? What’s the point of design these days? What are we doing?!

Things I found interesting / 17 Dec 2024 – 10 Jan 2025. Covering a bigger and busier period than usual. Some highlights in the thread... documenteering.com/2025/01/10/t...

Ah well, it had a good innings: traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

If you have a passion project of some kind and fancy talking about it at Conway Hall, @undermanager.bsky.social is doing Interesting again and looking for speakers. It's a great event and a lovely venue in which to do a short talk to a biggish audience. russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/202...

What a wonderful thing to share. Wish I’d thought of the ‘Arbitrary Fruit Babies’ phrasing.

I decline most interviews. However, in October I was interviewed via email with reporter Kevin Dickinson of Big Think. He wrote a terrific article: Einstein didn’t say that: How viral misquotes evolve and replicate bigthink.com/high-culture... ‬‪@markyarm.bsky.social‬ @dbaredit.bsky.social‬

More from the back of the booze cupboard – no idea where this Jose Cuervo tequila came from. But even more curious is the origin of the red berry flavoured vodka… and when it was drunk 🤷‍♂️

Essential in the back of random cupboards everywhere – a bottle of Angostura bitters that you bought after deciding to make cocktails a permanent part of your life, before never making them again. Also essential – wondering why the label is that way…

Things I found interesting, 30 Nov to 16 Dec. A big gap since my last collection due to busyness keeping me away from screens. Interesting to see how that changes media/medium consumption. A lot more listened to. documenteering.com/2024/12/16/t...

A bit of comfort listening while I try to deal with the plumbing issue I just discovered (and can’t deal with). I could listen @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and Susie Dent chat to each other all day. That’s recombobulation. www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

Lovely to see Russell and Haudoo! doing more following How to do Presentations (which is now out of print). Get them while they’re hot, potatoes (there’s also one I’m growing potatoes). fitzrovialightindustries.com/products/how...

Things I found interesting / 21-29 Nov 2024. These seem to be getting roughly weekly. This next week will be a quiet one though. Up to my ears in DIY. documenteering.com/2024/11/29/t...

After musing about a BBC series on UCD presented by Hannah Fry, I’d also like to pitch a series based on this book. An exploration into the history of humans trying to grapple with design. Our most powerful invention that we still struggle to agree a best method of www.dubberly.com/articles/how...

Brilliant work bringing Brompton to life. These animations perfectly capture the joy of owning one. I can never resist making little swhoosh, flip, bop type noises when I unfold mine. Takes me back to playing with Transformers. Chee-koo-chuk-koo-chuk! the-brandidentity.com/project/magi...

A concise social media and digital product history lesson from @designthinking.bsky.social. Anthropomorphising platforms and their incessant threatening of creators is so apt. And the last panel is so depressingly true. I mean FUNNY! Click the link designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...

"Travel is allowed via any permitted route". An oddly tautological piece of circular ambiguity from GWR. Why is train ticket language so inaccessible? Conscious use of deceptive patterns to cause mistakes and force fines and more ticket sales? Or just poor design?

What can Doughnut Economics learn from History? @romankrznaric.bsky.social and I chatted about it at our kitchen table - and @longnow.org turned it into a fab little film. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfUO...

“All you can do is try and understand… by asking good questions…” Sounds simple or even obvious, but this is succinct, honest and important advice I think. Great to hear it from someone as impressive as Martha. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just what I wanted. As while the growth of Bluesky is exciting, it’s drowning out some of my favourite more quiet voices.

How to use walled garden platforms, without over-investing and losing yourself when they die. Or worse. Another great piece from @molly.wiki on taking control of your online output with POSSE! www.citationneeded.news/posse/

I admit to a little envy of answers by Josephine Lie and Joe Burke (specially, TLDR: it’s invisible), but still please with my own take on this! Even more pleased by the general consensus around functionality. Ta @designweek.bsky.social for asking my thoughts www.designweek.co.uk/ten-takes-wh...

Things I found interesting / 13-20 Nov 2024 documenteering.com/2024/11/20/t...

Don't call it a Substack. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

"Design is everything and everywhere." 

Antionette D. Carroll with a mic drop definition in the ‘what is design’ conversation. Love it. antionettecarroll.design