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

Hate having to remember the kooky brand name of my internet of s*** device before I can find the app to turn a light on or the thermostat down. 🙄

The Bear on Disney+ is so beautifully shot. Somehow they can even make a crappy online document signing portal look cinematic. (S4:E2)

Remote usability testing the prototype and paddle boarding round Gower #weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/remote-...

Hmm link to latest blog post wasn’t working on here, so deleted it. Wondering if it’s because there was an apostrophe in the url? 🤦‍♂️ Will try and fix it tomorrow.

Thanks for the mention @jukes.ie (and to @pixlz.com for sharing). Very jealous of everyone at Camp Digital today.

Is it just me or is this giving "cut the feed of Mon Mothma's rebellion speech" vibes?

Prodigy looking and sounding immense 🤯 #glasto

Maribou State, Loyle Carner or Four Tet what a choice 🤯 #glasto

I'm running Cardiff Half to remember my nephew Emrys and raise money for Sands. Please donate or share if you can cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/benjy-sta...

Note to self: wunderhorse are not the same band as sparklehorse #glasto

Finally reached the end of our discovery phase #Weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/finalis...

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

Hmm, looks like scam/phishing SMS texts have started using inaccessible fake bold in their messages. Probably a good sign to watch out for, because I assume no official government messages would use fake bold.

I've started my training for Cardiff half marathon. Please donate if you can 🙏🏻 #weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/slow-pr...

I'm running Cardiff Half to remember my nephew Emrys and raise money for Sands. Please donate or share if you can cardiffhalf25.enthuse.com/pf/benjy-sta...

Successful Saturday running around different venues in Swansea to catch 6 bands! Mari Mathias, Los Blancos, Adwaith and Gruff Rhys at Gŵyl Tawe. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Then Positive Reaction and Asidhara cancer fundraising gig at The Bunkhouse. 🤘🏻

It's time to start looking for work. It's always hard to describe what I do and the type of thing/s I am looking for so I spent some proper time thinking about it, writing it down and getting feedback on it. blog.annkempster.com/available-fo... Have a read, get in touch.

Observing users, working on a new product and a music festival #weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/15-user...

Really happy to contribute a tiny housekeeping update to the HO’s accessibility posters (English language versions). They’re one of my favourite open accessibility resources. github.com/UKHomeOffice...

Don't have time for weeknotes at the moment, so just sharing some of my latest design bookmarks www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/a-few-l...

Lovely bit of feedback from a teammate… "You find the only salvageable thing in a sea of ****" That's going straight on my CV. 😅

Quick #weeknotes because I’m in mid wales enjoying myself. www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/user-re...

Anyone recommend any good reading about presenting data (tables, charts, some narrative) in ways that works for people with different levels of data literacy and/or in ways that makes the context and methods of analysis "legible"?

Patterns, paddling and prepping for UR #Weeknotes www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/welsh-s...

Image optimisation is a good (small) thing that designers can do to help reduce environmental impact of digital services. I like imageoptim.com/mac and jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/.

Taking a day off tomorrow to go to: “Co-Design Workshop on Service Patterns for Welsh Public Services” by the folks at @cdps.bsky.social.