This UK heatwave is making it difficult to uphold my goth values. Wearing shorts to the office and feel like I’m letting the sisterhood down 🐈⬛
Geri Reid
@gerireid.com
Everyone’s fave goth Mom. Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and associated nerdery. Be kind ❤️ gerireid.com
bsky hail mary because any second not spent on linkedin is a second to be cherished: i’m booking work in for july/august and would very much like to work with nice people on nice things. if you have any reccs then pls let me know thanks love ya x
When I first moved to London, my biggest fear was being caught up in a terrorist incident. Now it's being taken out by a 14 year old on a Lime bike doing 25mph through a red light while looking at TikTok.
Heading home from @pixelpioneers.co with a full heart - props to @oliverlindberg.com for a fab lineup and vibes, also @heydonworks.com for unleashing HyperBlam with backing dancers 🖤 hyperblam.how
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
Started out trying to make documentation easier for humans and AI to read. Months later, I'm having an existential crisis about filing cabinets: gerireid.com/blog/organis...
Your documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet
It's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and connections...
gerireid.com
Hey, @pixelpioneers.co is next week! There's a warmup event at the Just Eat office if anyone's around the night before👇
Ashley Watson-Nolan@ashn.uk · 2mo agoWe're hosting the Pixel Pioneers Warm-up at JET's Bristol office next Thursday 18th June, with talks from Molly India Nye, Jamie Maguire and Marwa Gorvan. The event is free – grab your ticket here: ti.to/pixel-pionee...
Good explainer on how the EAA and EN 301 549 flow down into national accessibility laws across the EU. #a11y en.gehirngerecht.digital/eu-accessibi...
EU accessibility laws, decoded
Confused about EU accessibility laws? Learn which rules apply and how to design compliant web products across Europe.
en.gehirngerecht.digital
Anybody in web dev/design looking for opportunities to get on stage and speak? We're looking for @webdevconf.com lightning speakers for October 9 in Bristol. 15 minutes on stage to strut your stuff! Reply or DM if you're interested!
Somewhere a LinkedIn thought leader is silently furious they didn’t come up with this first.
Luke Murphy@lurkmoophy.bsky.social · 2mo agoHAPPY BISCUIT DAY @scott.is! Celebrating the greatest video about UI vs UX ever created. Ten years and still going strong.
Happy World Goth Day! Seems a deeply impractical time of year to be stomping about London in black knee length Doc Martens like you’re off to a Victorian funeral: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_G...
Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #GAAD accessibility.day I’ll be at the London GAAD Foundation event later if any of you nerds are stopping by 👋
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Excellent read. Most accessibility issues occur because product teams assume everyone uses the web the way they do.
Wouter de Bres@wdeb.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou might have called it experience. A lot of the time, it was just you designing for yourself in a room full of people who are nothing like you. 📘 productdesignpsychology.com/01-nobody-th...
Yay! I'm hiring two Senior Accessibility Specialists to join my team on GOV.UK One Login. You'll be working with great people, solving complex problems for tens of millions of users. Salary of £70,834 - £74,317 (London) / £63,240 - £66,610 (National). Please share!
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A group of us ran Sara's course like a book club where we watched a section each week and regrouped to discuss. Highly recommend, I often refer back when working on components.
Sara Soueidan@sarasoueidan.com · 3mo agoI just sent an email newsletter out 📬 announcing a soft-launch of this year's Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD promotion: For the next two weeks, the Practical Accessibility course is going on sale! 25% off ($299 instead of $399) 🎁 Sale ends on June 1st ⏳ practical-accessibility.today
Interesting read on the state of AI in design systems. I'm delighted that all the boring, structured, plain language documentation I've written is finally deemed useful.
zeroheight@zeroheight.com · 3mo agoThe State of AI in Design Systems Report is here! 🚀 67% of practitioners think AI is overhyped. 82% are using it anyway. Want to see what else we uncovered? Check out the full report → hubs.li/Q04grDL50
If you're in Bristol the night before Pixel Pioneers, come to a meetup at the Just Eat offices for some lightning talks and chat. We're on the harbourside just along from the venue 👇
Pixel Pioneers@pixelpioneers.co · 3mo ago🍽️ We're once again teaming up with our friends from Just Eat to co-host a free meetup on the evening before Pixel Pioneers Bristol! There will be a few lightning talks, details on those soon. In the meantime, please register to reserve your spot (space is limited!): ti.to/pixel-pionee...
Heading home from #AllDayHey. What a lovely community you lot are. In an industry that’s constantly in flux, it genuinely warms my heart that people still care about each other and about making the web better ❤️
Design system folks, if I were to run a half day design system strategy workshop online, would you be interested in that?
Lovely Easter week walking the Cornish coast path with this chonky lad
Excellent read. Sad having to smuggle accessibility in through stealthy means but aligning to a business goal makes it easier to get permission: piccalil.li/blog/applyin... #a11y
Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully...
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✍️ How to annotate design system components for accessibility (by @gerireid.com): zeroheight.com/blog/how-to-...
How to annotate design system components for accessibility - zeroheight
Geri Reid shares how accessibility annotations for design systems help teams document components, create reusable specs, and build inclusive products.
zeroheight.com
The 5th edition of the Design Systems Report is here 📔 Design systems are now critical infrastructure—but they’re getting harder to sustain. Buy-in is dropping. Teams are stretched. Adoption is still the biggest challenge. Explore the report → hubs.li/Q04774jK0
It’s that time again - I’m on the hunt for new clients from the beginning of April. I’m open to full or part-time contracts outside IR35. I can help you with: - design system consultancy, coaching, management or documentation - content design - UX writing - technical writing 1/2
Hello.
Content design and design systems consultant
amyhupe.co.uk
@oliverturner.cloud amused how we’ve been chatting for about 15 years but didn’t recognise each other until we exchanged profile pictures 🙃
Props to @letorey.co.uk for #SotB26, such an uplifting and inclusive event. What a lovely community you are 🧡
We’ve been testing how machine-readable our design system documentation is. Turns out, AI agents and humans benefit from exactly the same qualities: gerireid.com/blog/ai-is-a...
AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible
Writing documentation for AI retrieval improves accessibility for humans too.
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