Rob Whiting 📓

Rob Whiting 📓

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#Accessibility, #Inclusion, #Research & #Design at Merlan Ltd. ⟹ NUX, UX Discuss & Designer Hangout organiser ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ

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An interesting sounding 👤 ‘Lead Agile Delivery Manager’ role working with the great Team at the Money and Pensions Service. ⤵ moneyandpensionsservice.reed.com/jobs/lead-ag...

Lead Agile Delivery Manager, Caxton House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NAmoneyandpensionsservice.reed.com Lead Agile Delivery Manager c. £85,000 per annum London Fixed Term Contract – 23 Months Hybrid Working An excellent opportunity to join the Money and Pensions Service as a Lead Agile Delivery Manager ...

UK public sector APIs. www.api.gov.uk A catalogue for #APIs published by #Government and #PublicSector organisations in the #UK.

API Cataloguewww.api.gov.uk

🪄🗺️ MAGIC (Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside). “… authoritative geographic information about the natural environment from across government.” magic.defra.gov.uk

MAGICmagic.defra.gov.uk The MAGIC website provides authoritative geographic information about the natural environment from across government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain. It is presented in an interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools that are included. Natural England manages the service under the direction of a Steering Group who represent the MAGIC partnership organisations.

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I've done a little 'Hire Me' page given my new circumstances ..do feel free to share 😆 digitalbydefault.com/hire-me/

[2024] Week 29 A conscious uncoupling. digitalbydefault.com/2024/07/18/2...

[2024] Week 29 – Conscious uncouplingdigitalbydefault.com So I find myself somewhat unexpectedly about to be on the job market. Well probably not THAT unexpected if you’ve been following closely but I really hadn’t decided to resign until minutes before I di...

Hire medigitalbydefault.com I am an experienced, generalist, digital leader (see résumé) who primarily operates in Central government (but has experience across a broader range of public service organisations including local gov...

To mark the 60th anniversary - #BFI visited five locations from #TheBeatles film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ to see how they look today. www.bfi.org.uk/features/how...

How The Beatles’ London looks today: 60 years of A Hard Day’s Nightwww.bfi.org.uk We went in search of the swinging London locations featured in The Beatles’ pop movie milestone A Hard Day’s Night.

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If you're someone who is thinking about starting to blog but struggling to make the leap, this is such a good example of a new blogger just going for it - a real inspiration! localstuffforlocalgovpeople.bearblog.dev/blog/

Bloglocalstuffforlocalgovpeople.bearblog.dev

I always enjoy reading sets of #Principles to understand how people see and approach their work (a famous example of this being these #DesignPrinciples - www.vitsoe.com/us/about/goo... by #DeiterRams).

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Ever wondered what happened to the 25 ‘exemplars’ from the early days of GDS? Well here’s a list of them, with links to current services, service assessment reports and source code (where available): govuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com/original-25-... (Thanks to @paulrobertlloyd.com for helping!)

Original 25 exemplars - X-GOVUKX-GOVUKgovuk-digital-services.herokuapp.com

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1960s/70s posters for French train operator TEE. Via the excellent retours.eu

The #Monotype Collection - on “… mechanising the process of casting and composing metal type for #Printing” at The Science Museum. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/monotype-col... #Typography

The Monotype Collection | Science Museumwww.sciencemuseum.org.uk

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The #DSDay24 call for speakers is open! We’re looking for keynotes, speakers and panel hosts for #DesignSystemDay 2024. Join us on Thursday 5 September in Liverpool and make this event our best yet! Find out what we’re looking for and how to apply: design-system.service.gov.uk/community/ca...

Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/us-web-desig... ^ via @jonkeegan.bsky.social

Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typefacewww.beautifulpublicdata.com The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful public design system aims to make government websites not only look good, but to m...

… the South Cambridgeshire results “prove once and for all that a #FourDayWeek with no loss of pay absolutely can succeed in a #LocalGovernment setting”. www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research findswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: South Cambridgeshire experiment led to fewer refuse collectors quitting and faster planning decisions

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When you design and test products and services in English (as the default) and then translate into Welsh, you might not consider: - the needs of Welsh language users - the mechanics of the Welsh language - cultural differences

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Create/Change is looking to expand our UCD freelancer talent pool - the initial focus is on Inside IR35 work in the North East of England - more on LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Create/Change on LinkedIn: #servicedesign #usercentreddesign #userresearch #contentdesign #ucd…www.linkedin.com We’re looking to grow our pool of experienced UCD practitioners to work on future public sector projects. Right now we are prioritising practitioners who: -…

Press On - A #Fundraising campaign for a #Letterpress journey around Britain's public #Libraries by #Bicycle, printing bookmarks along the way. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/press-on

Press Onwww.crowdfunder.co.uk A letterpress journey around Britain's public libraries by bicycle, printing bookmarks along the way.

The Printing Bike Project - bringing together the 🚲 #Bicycle and #Letterpress #Printing. www.departmentofsmallworks.co.uk/work#/slowco...

Projects — The Department of Small Workswww.departmentofsmallworks.co.uk

A useful set of resource to improve digital #Content in 🌍 #Languages other than English. Provided by Digital.gov as part of their #Multilingual Community of Practice. digital.gov/communities/...

Digital.govdigital.gov Guidance on building better digital services in government

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Artist Shantell Martin wants you to to make something cool with her typeface, Shantell Sans: shantellsans.com/process

Shantell Sans → A font for youshantellsans.com A font for artist Shantell Martin

The second edition of Leah Buley's classic 📙 'The User Experience Team of One' available to pre-order from Rosenfeld Media. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-us...

The User Experience Team of One | Free EBook with Purchase | Leah Buleyrosenfeldmedia.com Unlock impactful UX strategies for solo practitioners and organizational leaders. Optimize resources and elevate your user experience game.

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THE BALLAD OF HALO JONES is Alan Moore & Ian Gibson's feminist space opera masterpiece – don't miss these fantastic collections in our webshop sale this week ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 33% off Vols.1-3: bit.ly/3KQ9dYK 15% off colour omnibus: bit.ly/3QCgv5C

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The Conservatives claimed yesterday that a mysterious website design service handed £100,000 in taxpayer cash by its MPs is "independent" from the party However, I've now obtained records showing its company address is a property owned by a Tory staffer bylinetimes.com/2024/06/24/c...

The Conservatives Claim a Website Design Firm They Handed £100,000 in Taxpayer Cash is ‘Independent’ but it’s Listed at an Address Owned by a CCHQ Stafferbylinetimes.com Records seen by Byline Times throw doubt on the party's claims about the tech firm employed by Conservative MPs

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Enjoying Radio Paradise, thanks @soniaturcotte.bsky.social for the tip radioparadise.com/player/info/...

An eclectic musical adventure...radioparadise.com Radio Paradise streams highly curated, eclectic mixes of music -- chosen by real humans -- with unparalleled audio quality.

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SDinGov 2024 programme is now live: sdingov.net/programme-2024 The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services. Returning for its 11th year. 1, 2 & 3 day tickets available now... #SDinGov

Programme 2024sdingov.net

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RIP IXDA. I remember signing up for the mailing list back in 2008 and through that made a lot of internet friends who I still know today ixda.org/an-announcem...

An Announcement from the Board Regarding the Future of IxDAixda.org For those of you who have been waiting for an update since our Interaction 24 post, thank you for your patience. And for those of you who have been following along either actively or passively, tha…

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Are you passionate about print? ❤️ Help us to protect the future of this 600 year old craft by volunteering with us at Norwich Printing Museum! If you’d like to get involved with our museum, based at the NT’s Blickling Estate, we’d love to hear from you!👇 norwichprintingmuseum.co.uk/volunteer/

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Let's hope more type foundries join BlueSky! Follow & warmly welcome Rutherford and check out the outstanding work they're doing #typography

frankly I don’t have enough Content™ for one social media site (let alone 4), but either way, hello, this is a Type Foundry Brand Account

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I find it very useful to be able to search through my own posts here on Bluesky, and sometimes use it rather like a notebook. Here is how to do it. In the search bar, type from:[handle] [search terms]

🖥 ‘Starring the Computer’ - A website dedicated to the use of #Computers in 🎞 #Film and 📺 #Television. starringthecomputer.com ^ via @kottke.org

Starring the Computerstarringthecomputer.com Computers in movies and television shows

On making #UX improvements to 👢 Wellington boots. www.core77.com/posts/132490...

UX Improvements to the Muck Boot - Core77www.core77.com As I'm on a farm, muck boots are an indispensable daily-use object for me. They're simple, cheap and effective. But they have their pain points. The first is that the material is always super stiff. T...