Almost time for Benjify Wrapped again www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/benj-if...

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My notes and reflections from the 'working in the open' session yesterday at @govcampcymru.bsky.social #gccy25 www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/govcamp...

Thanks @govcampcymru.bsky.social! Loved today. Lots of great conversations, meeting people in real life, and stickers! #gccy25

What a week. Reef, The Fast Show, Design Swansea, and now I'm heading to GovCamp Cymru. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

“Design falls in love with problems, not solutions”. Love this slide from Omar Idris (at Design Swansea)

Thanks all for your help. Going to trial Qobuz for streaming and I’ve moved my podcasts to my phone’s default podcast app. Not perfect, but step in the right direction I guess.

I’ve been off this week but I’m looking forward to Design Swansea and GovCamp Cymru next week. Anyone else going? #weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/design-...

Why hasn’t Google Maps updated its speed limit info to reflect the new 20mph limits in Wales?

Looking to switch from Spotify. Any recommendations? Biggest challenge will be convincing the teenagers. Looking at Tidal or Apple Music so far.

October's Transform Wales newsletter goes out next week. This month we’re highlighting: - bilingual design by default - AI in content and healthcare - the language of digital - what it really means to solve problems that matter Sign up here: transform.wales/newsletter/

I’ve been working on a map that’s helping to influence the product roadmap, and I’m also planning to tick off more Gower beaches on an early morning run. #Weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/mapping...

Design community of practice, prototyping internal services and watching rugby in the valleys #weeknotes

Happy #SystemsOfHarm podcast day to all who celebrate 🥳 Today’s episode features author of best-selling Good Services, @loudowne.bsky.social Lou and I chat about design systems and gender, and how to provide inclusive experiences for trans people. Apple: apple.co/434XE9F RSS: bit.ly/43gtLkB

Settling down to give this a read

Observing some UAT this week was a great opportunity to meet operational staff and see their issues first hand www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/cycling... #weeknotes

Super proud that our report is now out! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Massive shout out to @annkempster.com, @daivaughan.uk and @jocarter.bsky.social 🎉 We'd love to hear what you think!

I’m planning a trip to the office. Need to leave now to make it in time for stand-up if I want to avoid driving 🙈

VoiceOver on iOS doesn't have a Welsh voice synthesiser, so Welsh content is announced in English, making it completely inaccessible to Welsh screen reader users. Essentially, Welsh screen reader users who do not speak English will not be able to use any iOS apps. Are there any workarounds?

If you can even just donate a single pound, we'd be grateful. You'll be helping us fund printing costs, events and public affairs work. And most excitingly, the full report will be published bilingually on Friday!

User research, multi-disciplinary teams and balancing strategic versus tactical fixes #weeknotes @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social

Worst captcha ever?

Me every morning when Windows Hello winks at me

Seeing Cate Le Bon next week! Think it’s shaping up to be a potential gig of the year. 🙌🏻

A round-up of posts that explore why disabled buttons can cause usability and accessibility issues for users. www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/disable...

I've been assigned to a sprint team, doing some user journey maps and a couple of gigs #weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/a-new-t...

What user centred design (UCD) columns or stages, if any, do you have in your dev team’s sprint/kanban board?

Accessibility design annotations are only useful if everyone understands them. Our latest blog post by @craigabbott.co.uk explores how shared language can help different teams avoid accessibility issues. tetralogical.com/blog/2025/09... #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #SustainableAccessibility

Apple weather thinks Bristol is in Wales. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, we’d be happy to have you.

Chuffed to see this get a massive boost yesterday. If you haven’t already, please read, sign and share (fellas, the read and share bit applies to you too)

Really looking forward to reading this

Really enjoyed listening to maredwards.bsky.social talk about the slow pace of change, reflecting on work, and learning different ways to make an impact as a public servant www.youtube.com/watch?v=916C...

Focus this week has been prototyping on Windows and joining an in-person hackathon #weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/prototy...

Move slowly and fix things

My first week at IPO www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/first-w... #weeknotes

An AI Overview is not available for this skeet.

Good morning, Bluesky! BOTD in 1988, Welsh electronic musician and composer Kelly Lee Owens, shown here on the cover of her album, Dreamstate.

Enjoyed a good girls guide to murder on Netflix. I loved how they portrayed the central family and how they tackled teenage life. And it doesn’t shy away from some pretty big themes either.

Beaches, beer, butter, basement jaxx www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/funempl... #weeknotes

My last week at HO www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/finishi... #weeknotes

Finally got round to fixing a little plugin problem I had on my site, so my #weeknotes are back. This post is probably not worth the wait 😅 it's just some very quick snippets before I went on holiday www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/a-few-q...

Let’s start re-designing how Governments works! It's time to get serious about design cathydutton.co.uk/posts/its-ti...

I would say that the sentiment in my Bluesky feed is almost 100% negative towards AI at the moment.

It's amazing what evidence based policy can do. The evidence that the 20mph limit is working fantastic from the point of view of saving lives and saving the taxpayer money in Wales is overwhelming. You can be annoyed about it. But you can't argue that it isn't doing what it was supposed to do.

6 hour train journey to Birmingham 😭 At least I made a friend.

I think the fact that we use a sparkle as the icon for AI says a lot ✨

Our car has been urgently recalled, but the dealership garage can’t fit us in for a month and nobody will confirm if the car is safe to drive in the meantime. Cool cool cool.

Went to see Book of Mormon. I know it’s a parody of white savorism. But I didn’t realise it was going to be so racist. Should have known, given the writers. Am I missing something?

So, if you were looking at component library in GitHub (or similar) and that component library used Storybook, but with HTML (as 'pure' as can be) and you don't really know much about JS or templating languages. Opening the button.html file would you rather, or expect to see:

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths. 1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu... [1/3] #accessibility #a11y #HTML