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Eddie Rich

@eddierich.bsky.social

Product / Strategy / UX

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Alastair Somerville@acuity.design · last wk.

That Google Glass was a perfect example of human-centred prototype seems forgotten. They built it, deployed and discovered how much people (not the users alone) loathed it and they stopped it. Didn’t iterate it, didn’t try to fudge the results and blame people, just accepted it was a bad product.

Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · last wk.

The rare bit of good traffic safety news. Backup cameras work, and have meaningfully reduced severe injuries among kids under 5 years old caused by backovers. We can argue that cars are too big in the first place, limiting visibility, but this is good tech.

Jalopnik@jalopnik.bsky.social · last wk.

Backup cameras have been required on new vehicles for the better part of the decade, but are they making a difference? Let's look at the stats.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW | One woman seems to represent *all* of Britain’s pensioners… OMNIBUS WANKERS AND THE BRITAIN’S ONLY PENSIONER The big problem with BBC vox pops on buses and a case study on VAT. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/omnibus-wa...

Omnibus wankers and Britain's only pensioner

Vox pops in the BBC's coverage of Burnham's bus fares policy and VAT cuts highlight the problems with attempting to represent the public's view on any given issue.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

Stef Walter@stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you want the full experience: I'm running a 4×2.5h + Q&A "Accessibility for Designers" full workshop. We'll cover what designers need to know about accessibility, with many hands-on Figma exercises to practice! Detail: smashingconf.com/online-works...

Accessibility for Designers — Online Workshops

Accessibility is the responsibility of the whole team. And a lot of accessibility issues can be already foreseen and prevented during the design phase. This practical workshop is designed to equip attendees with the knowledge and skills to design products that are accessible and user-friendly.

smashingconf.com

Stef Walter@stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm running a free online 1 hour accessibility webinar in September! Catching accessibility issues in mockups is cheaper than fixing them in code. I'll cover how to check your mockups, documentation examples and you will get plenty of resources to help. 📅 Tue, Sept 1, 2026 · 19:00 CEST

Spotting Accessibility Issues Early — Online Workshops

Accessibility is not only a developer problem, it's team work! And many issues can already be spotted, prevented, and documented during the design phase. In this 1-hour webinar, Stephanie Walter will show designers and open-minded curious developers how to review mockups for common accessibility issues.

smashingconf.com

Eddie Rich@eddierich.bsky.social · 3w ago

So I was applying for a great role last week, and the process was easy. It was simply name, contact info and CV. It didn't ask for any extra information other than... Education. Level & year completed. Convince me that this wasn't designed to filter candidates by anything other than age.

Eddie Rich@eddierich.bsky.social · 3w ago

Walk in the sunshine through Southampton this morning on my way to an appointment. Coffee, croissant, sunshine, seagulls, very continental feeling. Naturally, I spilled coffee all down my nice, fresh, clean, white t-shirt so am now sat in the waiting room looking less than presentable. Ho-hum...

White t-shirt splattered with faint, but very very visible, coffee stains
Eddie Rich@eddierich.bsky.social · 4w ago

Considering the length of it all, I propose we stop calling it "heatwave" and "second heatwave" here in the UK, and just call it "summer" as I feel this is going to be the new normal.

Eddie Rich@eddierich.bsky.social · 4w ago

I am now convinced that no-one wants to make good experiences any more. They just want to make things quickly, no matter how shonky they end up, or even if they attempt to solve the right problem.

Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · last mo.

#ResistanceRoots Until 1971, the prevailing psychiatric and social view framed child sexual abuse as a result of the child seducing the adult or inventing “erotic fantasies,” rather than as exploitation. A landmark 1971 presentation by social worker Florence Rush challenged this thinking. /1

Florence Rush in 1981. The preface to her book, The Best-Kept Secret (1980), is titled “Growing Up Molested.” She was abused as a child, and channeled that trauma along with her work as a psychiatric social worker into her groundbreaking research. Photo credit: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · last mo.

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

Eddie Rich@eddierich.bsky.social · last mo.

This is our 4 yearly reminder that the ITV X app is the worst streaming app in existence. Low quantity image, buffers & crashes a lot. There really isn't any excuse for how poor it is.

Dan Klyn@danklyn.bsky.social · last mo.

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Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios. I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”