One of the greatest joys I have had recently is making a large, paper maché frog. The frog has gone to live at my daughter's school, where it is going to collect the children's wishes for new books for the library.

Colleague told me they'd had an argument with an old white man and had thought of me. Hoping its not because I remind them of the man (who was being an arse).

Whitehall Primary School in East Bristol are looking for help to get some extra craft bits and pieces to use as part of their Eid celebrations - could you help out? amzn.eu/01oiJHke

Hearing a toilet brush being used in an urgent, aggressive manner is really unpleasant.

I miss my 6 year old daughter when she is at school. I catch moments of thinking "Oh I wish I could show this to Ripley" or "I hope she is having a nice day and enjoying [whatever the thing for the day is]". She's brutally honest with me that she forgets I exist as soon as she goes into school 😂

Challenged myself to read 14 books this year. I’m over halfway through book 14 and it’s not yet the end of April. Last year I read 12 😅 I thought 14 was a good stretch to aim for

Been re-discovering my love of the Super Furry Animals and realising that I first listened to them 30 years ago 😅

Listening to a webinar about AI and product stuff and the host has just said “hang on I want to double click on what you just said” to one of the guest speakers.

Whitehall Primary School in East Bristol is looking for help with some supplementary items to enhance learning. They have a wish list for items to use in their outdoor “wilderness” area where children can experience nature. Could you help them out by ordering an item? ❤️https://amzn.eu/2DL9Due

The thing I am working on at the moment involves me translating chemotherapy reactions into an "easy to read" flow chart. Each day I feel like three racoons in a trench coat.

Creating something new from scratch is a wild ride

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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 ❤️

Sleep well dear Meemo. You’ve been the sweetest little friend.

I don’t know if it’s a hangover from having cancer, or just getting older, but I’m the loneliest I think I’ve ever been and have no idea how to fix it.

I'm in the heady mist of going through a stack of research sessions and realising this is really my happy place, amongst the chaos of information and ideas and finding patterns amongst it all

"Buttocks" is such a funny word to hear unexpectedly.

Forever in amazement at the experience of doing user research and how it changes everything

Me: “Do you ever think of me or Daddy when you’re at school?” 6 year old: “of course not, I go in and forget you. Is that what you expected me to say?” “…Yes, I suppose it was”

Watching recordings of research sessions and feeling like this

Why is it drinking milk on the street is a red flag?

😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The world of school emails and text messages and parent what’s app groups… I had no idea what this world was like 🫠

Getting older is like evolving Pokemon, its not always slow and gradual growth, its often sudden extreme skill switching and acquisition

I'm feeling like a kid in a candy store getting to collaborate on some really exciting research with a specialist researcher at the moment. Reading her plans of what we are going to do just makes me so happy!

I wish people wouldn’t book seat reservations in the quiet coach if all they want to do is talk loudly and endlessly and roll their eyes about being respectful to other passengers. What’s with that?

Business meeting ready.

Very pleased to say I have officially joined thelearninglab.health and feel like I hit the jackpot with the team I get to work with and the problems we're trying to solve ❤️

Good evening London

Good morning Bristol

Discovering that using LLMs can rouse the same level of pure anger in me that printers can

Got such a strong urge to find a new box set and start knitting something but theres just nothing out there that makes me want to watch it at the moment.

Wish there was something else like Friday Night Lights being made at the moment. I miss watching it.

Is Figma the only thing UX research platforms think people make prototypes in these days?

Growing up on a farm rats were something we often talked about, however we didn't call them rats, they were always "Rolands" or "Dereks". The Dereks were the biggest ones. The Rolands just the general ones. It was completely normal to say stuff like "I've just seen the Derek with the crooked tail"

A big old animated gif is exactly what I need at the top of every page in the help section I am trying to use 😑

I’ve been doing volunteer reading with seven year 2 children at my daughter’s primary school this year and I did my final session of the year yesterday. They are such brilliant young people & they have been the highlight of my week 🥲 one of them wrote me the sweetest note in my notebook

One of the greatest joys of working in user experience is getting to meet people who are experts in things I am not and getting to learn so much from them. Unexpected topics are the best, and ones I know very little about.

There is something about Figma I just don't seem to gel with. Everything always feels gritty and awkward to do in it.

Timehop really delivered today (cc @senongo.bsky.social )

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Unusual clouds out this evening in Bristol

I went to see the Jurassic Park film this morning, and it’s made me remember how important the cheapest, first steps steps in the creative process are… no matter how much you spend later on, if you don’t do a good job on the basics, everything suffers

Worth checking your gardens for creatures that have got stuck looking for water in this heatwave: I found a rat in ours that had got stuck trying to get some water left at the bottom of a bucket that had another slightly smaller bucket nested in it

Does everyone drink more water these days or am I imagining it? I don't remember seeing people walking about with bottles all the time growing up. Were we all constantly dehydrated?

Submit 1500 words of your novel to this competition - with a top cash prize and writing courses to win. Looks like a fun one. www.thenovelry.com/prize

Do I know anyone that works in #researchops ? Or who has set up their own panel of research participants from scratch - I am looking for some tips and answers to a few questions...

I'm looking for examples of tackling problems that exist but that for whatever reason, people are ignoring, or just sort of living with, without any activity to change them despite them causing issues. Like the elephant in the room thing.

(I would appreciate it if you shared this because it feels weird to write something like this and then have no one read it)