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✅ Thanks Dean. Sent something
Do I know / do you know any really solid content designers who would be able to join a team on an alpha (and beta)?
It’d be outside and 3 days a week so suits someone who needs flexibility
Screenshot of MS Teams interface. Their brand logo is misaligned from every other logo
Please teams. Don't make me look at this misaligned logo all day 😱
Ah but sir the lived experience was the compensation. In today’s digital world, delay repay is just ££ but a new experience? priceless
Has Word created a feature yet like the red or blue underline for “this sounds like AI/management shite”?
Worked with someone once who stretched up at their desk and yawned and did their shoulder in for months 😅
Why is everything trying to be smart but is so dumb?
Business banking app. Use the savings account to whack most of the business money in it to earn interest.
Current account kept low to maximise savings interest
Everytime I open the app “your funds are low”… no pal. They’re literally just earning me money like you tell me to do kthxbye
A great article on 'one thing per page'
grillopress.github.io/2019/01/31/o...
Was quite happy to see it shared on a design newsletter recently as AI stuff seems to have killed normal means of reaching people
If you missed it off linkedin here’s my blog spam for a recent blog post about prototyping. Thoughts about the value of using code but also getting behind your material skills with the urm… material
grillopress.github.io/2025/10/27/p...
Provocotype
Provcatype
Provokatype
Provotype
Pro-
Provoking prototype
Prototypes that provoke
A few words on them…
grillopress.github.io/2025/10/04/p...
White flowers falling over wooded side of a planter
Upwards shot of a beautiful white flower with green foliage behind
Look at these beauts
And it feels so obvious a tactics to defuse and disempower complaints
Noticed a trend and I’m guessing it’s a trained thing. Large companies when dealing with complaints will make people on the phone be really passive aggressive about “oh it’s not ME or MY FAULT [horrific failure from company]”
And it’s like …duh I’m talking to an organisation not Bob on the helpline
Anyone got any recommendations about good websites to buy custom build pcs from?
Tell your mum those green man ones are seriously cool
Find out what they care deeply about. What’s the *thing* for them.
The thing you care deeply about.
Define a what about their thing doesn’t happen that your thing helps with. Come armed with a book or something for them to consider deeper later
Dealing with one of those “if it was cheap and easy to sign up we’ll make it hell to stop” services
And back to tidsskrift.dk/daimipb/arti...
Page 157 is lovely summary I think of the value of provoking through prototypes.
About that ability to cut against the “we know this” and current accepted practice etc
In terms of when and how to use it. I liked the framework in here years ago www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Been around plenty for years and used on and off.
Thesis from 1993 that uses it tidsskrift.dk/daimipb/arti...
Like visualise stuff however you want to help communicate or for understanding. But replacing one cookie cutter suggestion with another one isn’t anything
Someone on LinkedIn has “reinvented” the service blueprint and thinks we need a new name for ux and service design
It's not a JFDI, it's sparkling test and learn approach etc etc
The spirit and concept can be one thing. I love people giving names to things and explaining how things should be. But the behaviour and approaches that *really* end up happening (new and old) is what's quite interesting
As with anything that gains traction, I think it's always worth to watch what sins an in-vogue phrase like "test and learn" is used to forgive
Latest bloggo. Something about gut health and culture
grillopress.github.io/2025/07/27/t...
Apparently dark ones show up water stains etc more. But I’ve never had one and only stayed at a couple of places with them (and they were pretty new!) so maybe the white ones are okay
