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‘Much of the language used around remote work (and remote events) assumes that one is in the mid-to-late stages of their career. When you’re young, you don’t need “focus” or to “get things done.” You need exposure to new ideas and people.’ I definitely relate to that

Pictorial Meadow, Landsdowne Estate, Sheffield, August 1st 2020, with hybrid poppies, Ammi majus & emergent Red Orache. Social housing, with large expanses of mown grass, right up to the buildings. This conversion was done with support from the Tenants and Residents Association.

User researchers have turned to surveys and quantitative work in the last 3 months to fill the void left by face-to-face research sessions. 😕 Here are the top mistakes that you DON'T want to make: bit.ly/3gLwRF5 #UserResearch #UX #Surveys

What if algorithms were designed with the end users in mind instead of as tools to help the decision makers make more decisions quicker?

Home Office Digital created a fantastic video to explain what user research is to participants, making it less daunting and less of a 'black box' hodigital.blog.gov.uk/2017/12/08/mov… Nic Price 🐘📮 @UXinsight_org #UXinsight #ParticipantNeeds #ResearchOps

Read read read! designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/c…

Great stuff! Looking forward to seeing what will happen next! Hopefully people focused and prototyping lead? Keen to get involved.

80% of data we save is never used after being stored!!! 80%?!? @hanopcan

💡WOW, what a timely, generous & much-needed resource! An #OpenSource Participant Support & Wellbeing Pack 👉 For researchers/designers supporting participants in sensitive research or during difficult times. Created by Bright Harbour AndGood #covid #research #design

⭐️Have you wondered how to do research in times of COVID, how we can still be human-centered while keeping the distance, and why we should re-center our focus away from “the user” or “the co-worker”?

Masters of words Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 and Sara Wilcox, NHS England Transformation Content Designer, discuss the many reasons that simplicity of language is vital for nhs.uk, in BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth. Great insights & useful #ContentDesign resources 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Miro has its place but nothing beats a feedback wall of fun like this😍 Amy Hupe @macementer

Looking forward to using this great piece of work for our future projects @macementer some of the patterns have been confirming our recent research with young people and what they need from mental health services. Share widely 🙌

How to cope when usual #UserResearch tactics aren’t available, but user insights are urgent? @nhsdigital's lead user researcher @matthewlund10 describes how they adapted to Covid's challenges. Great to see the real experiences still shaping services. digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-ma… #UX

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Last week we got together with @macementer to trial a new sketching workshop originally put together by Andrew Grimes. We thought about sketching as a tool to help creating new service concepts, build consensus, solve complex problems and enable others to have ideas.