Dear fruit fly (and friends) please do fruit fly things outside and not in my house. You annoying little #!@!!!!!s
Paul Smith
@paulmsmith.bsky.social
Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England. Generally designing, prototyping, coding & problem solving. Often drinking a disproportionate amount of tea in rainy Manchester.
Is uBlockDNS Trust worthy? (or other dns based Adblockers) - I spotted that uBlockDNS is not officially affiliated with uBlock.
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
🎉 - Off you f*ck. ... Wait what?
Paul Smith@paulmsmith.bsky.social · 4w agoI'm still holding out hope for a resignation.
At the “a day off is more stress and worry than its worth” stage of not managing my life very well.
I've just realised who the current Alexa voice I have enabled reminds me of! 🫢 Kemi Badenoch.
This slide didn't make the cut but it was fun to make. Working in the NHS you get to suggest that the problem you and your teams are working on, is indeed, one of the hardest. :)
40 something very experienced user centred interaction designer. Thinking about changing country. New Zealand, Australia or Canada all seem appealing without much real insight. Sounds difficult. Is it?
Some of you might remember, a while back I wrote a blog post pulling apart a job advert for a UX Accessibility Specialist at JD Sports. It turns out I wasn't shouting into a void. They reached out! We worked together on it, and we got to a good outcome! www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2025/mi...
Mission impossible – a follow up!
A follow-up on my JD Sports accessibility job role post, and what happened next.
craigabbott.co.uk
If AI image generation lent it self to anything, surely it is "Selleck, Waterfall , Sandwich"?
I bought this book the week I started at the NHS. Only just getting to reading it. A Paul Downey recommendation.
So it was his fault the ships weren’t getting through but just incase there was any doubt….. He probably wants to claim it’s part of the plan now.
I don’t know as much as I’d like but every snippet I’ve seen shows me this is a real leader. How they think, they talk/communicate and behave.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4mo agoCarney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*
Just me with a constant feeling of being overwhelmed? I want to eliminate any unnecessary ‘noise’. Might crowd source a list. 1. Any ‘news’ said at me by a person in a suit on TV/YouTube/Etc.
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
Helen@socialsoup.bsky.social · 4mo agoStop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
Interested to see whats happening over at data.gov.uk 👀
data.gov.uk - The home of UK public data
The home of UK public data to inform decisions and build services
data.gov.uk
I always forget about Sunday trading laws and end up stood outside a shop in the cold.
Vibe coding is: being three hours into debugging something that took twenty minutes to build.
Can anybody recommend a place to buy good wholebean coffee? Ideally next day delivery. Medium-Dark and Dark roasted are my faves.
In Walmart test, traditional online shopping beat agentic commerce bigtime.
Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website
After testing 200,000 items in ChatGPT, Walmart found sharply lower conversions and will use its own integrated shopping experience.
searchengineland.com
Basecamp do have some incredibly good interaction designers. www.fizzy.do is really jolly nice and well thought out. Remember Trello? That but better and modern. No AI (phew!). Free and self hosting is possible too.
Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been.
A refreshing take on cards, columns, and kanban.
fizzy.do
Monzo’s loan/credit repayment design patterns are so sneakily evil and deceptive. I’m almost impressed. I get they’re seeking profit, I don’t begrudge them that, they’ve made a nice service/product but the very carefully crafted friction to a user reducing the interest payable is quite something.
Rate your 2025 out of 10 (1 being a festering pile of bullhonky, 10 being happy-happy-joy-joy)
The email I've been waiting over 20 years for. Openreach have rolled out their 'full fibre' to where I live. It's too little, too late. Profiteering sods have held me and this country back for decades. Addicted to metered copper lines they've had their knee on the throat of a vital service.
