Blogged about why the PM's plans to scrap Digital ID is the wrong right decision medium.com/writing-by-i...

Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious. loosemore.com/2026/07/18/d...

Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious

The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (D…

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The GOVUK design system team have today added the interruption page pattern and component: design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/int... - based on previous work by teams across government. 🎉 This is a great example of where it is sometimes helpful to add some friction into a digital journey.

Interruption pages

Pause the user journey to give them important information

design-system.service.gov.uk

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring User Researchers at GDS's Incubator for AI - come join our growing UCD team 😀 More details and links in 🧵

There's some genuinely excellent use of LLMs in all this. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-gemi...

Here's how the government is using AI to speed up the planning system

These two new systems could be genuinely revolutionary

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Senior Service Designer Closes 1 July www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system

The government said its in-house IT system was

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The WebAIM Million 2026 report is out, it reports on overall accessibility across the web: 1. The number of failures increased 10.1% YOY 2. The average number of page elements increased 22.5%YOY Meaning accessibility progress is backsliding. Personally, I am quite certain this is related to AI.

Here's a blog post about a thing I made recently 😊 www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/doom-loops/ And here's the thing: doomloop.cc

*Means of production dramatically improves* Me: Sweet. I make same stuff in less time now. Them: No, no, no! You must make more stuff in same time. Never same stuff in less time, silly peasant.

Report from the field, trying to figure out if I'm about to be automated out of a job. www.mynameismartin.co.uk/blog/how-im-...

How I’m dealing with the pressure to adopt AI as a designer — mynameismartin

I’ve spent the last month trying to catch up with AI in design, and I have news. Things haven't settled, the ground is still moving, and sitting with uncertainty might be the best position right now

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A certain campaign website launched last week was a bit security-broken, in a way that has wider lessons for AI-coded stuff. Writing 👇 blog.harrym.com/p/hold-the-s...

Hold the security: a vibe-coding story

Vibe-coded doesn't mean vibe-secure, so we should try and stop the internet being full of even more broken things

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Happy new year! Here's a thing about some less serious AI experiments I did over the Xmas break: www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/xmas-2...

Xmas break silliness - I thought I'd combine multiple NY resolutions and learn Spanish whilst running and listening to home made verb-conjugation-techno (built with 11 Labs and Strudel) soundcloud.com/timpaul-1/se...

Ser (proof of concept)

Quick sketch of an idea to combine text-to-voice with Strudel live coding to make running music that can also help me learn Spanish!

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My 2025 #yearnote as—sorry!—a listicle. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/2025/

10 lessons from 2025

Technology & identity in GDS and the NHS

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wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/

Clichés take hold in political language, a vicious cycle that runs through campaign speeches, through citizens’ expectations, and down into the software we build or procure by cliché, whose accordingly poor performance invites further calls for simplification. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/design-...

Design by cliché

We reject cliché. We require true names

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Had a very enjoyable top deck, front seat bus ride to work, chatting on Signal to @duncanjbrown.com about this absolute banger of a talk he gave

Duncan Brown@duncanjbrown.com · 10mo ago

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

I worked with Amy and she is the best - HIRE HER!

Amy Hupe@amyhupe.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A wee reminder that I am looking for my next client. I’m a design systems and content design consultant, specialising in design systems management, documentation, general content design, and consultancy. I’ve worked with the BBC, GOV.UK, Springer Nature, NHS, The Wellcome Trust, BT and more 1/2

🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com

A design language, if you can keep it.

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Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Back at #CampDigital and so far it’s as inspiring and interesting as ever 😃

The flipping legend @herahussain.bsky.social kicks off #campDigital with her 3 month old in a pram by her side 🌟💪🏽

Two great courses here from the brilliant @claragt.bsky.social

Clara Greo@claragt.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the last day for early bird tickets to Introduction to user-centred design in government training in June 🐥 Tickets for Advocating for UCD training are also available 🦚 Opportunity tickets are also available claragreo.com/training/ --- Illustration by Ayush Kumar on Unsplash

This is very cool - an AI-powered prototyping tool that’s simple enough to run locally!

Joe Lanman@joelanman.com · last yr.

I wrote up my experiment making an LLM/AI project for GOV.UK prototyping: joelanman.com/posts/llm-ai...

PS, if you are an amazing, experienced app designer or know someone who is – drop me a message please – we might need a bit of help soon 👋

Last year I wrote about a thing I made that uses AI to turn PDF forms into nice, accessible GOV.UK-styled versions. Here's an update where I consider what it would be like to use it on ALL the PDF forms on GOV.UK

grim, beautiful essay that puts it all together in a way that resonates, at least for me - check it out!

Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social · last yr.

@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social absolutely nail this; we're up against a sick movement that wants to crash humanity www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Join us for Money talks: Estimating the cost and value of service design 1 day (5 hour) course. Early bird tickets are available now for £275.00 This was a popular session at SDinGov 2024, and @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social and I have run for the OU and MoJ www.tickettailor.com/events/ignac...