Iain Broome
@iainbroome.com
Freelance content designer currently working with Public Digital. Author of the novel, A is for Angelica. Sender of newsletters. 💌
Freelance work: verymeta.com
Fiction: iainbroome.com
Plain English newsletter: plainenglish.club
Freelance work: verymeta.com
Fiction: iainbroome.com
Plain English newsletter: plainenglish.club
One of my favourite internet things is still Carrd, which allows you to quickly and cheaply set up a one-page website. I've used it for all sorts of things, including my freelance website and a prototype user research library I once made for HM Land Registry.
Choose a Starting Point - Carrd
Templates
try.carrd.co
January 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
One of my favourite internet things is still Carrd, which allows you to quickly and cheaply set up a one-page website. I've used it for all sorts of things, including my freelance website and a prototype user research library I once made for HM Land Registry.
Ace stuff from Ema Thornhill at Scope, neither of which I can find on Bluesky.
"Sometimes the research sessions we do look nothing like the research sessions we planned. But that is OK because it means the participant took part in a way that was accessible, inclusive and comfortable for them."
"Sometimes the research sessions we do look nothing like the research sessions we planned. But that is OK because it means the participant took part in a way that was accessible, inclusive and comfortable for them."
Recommendations for user research with disabled people and their families
As a user researcher at a disability charity, people sometimes ask how we make research sessions accessible for disabled people. Or if…
medium.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Ace stuff from Ema Thornhill at Scope, neither of which I can find on Bluesky.
"Sometimes the research sessions we do look nothing like the research sessions we planned. But that is OK because it means the participant took part in a way that was accessible, inclusive and comfortable for them."
"Sometimes the research sessions we do look nothing like the research sessions we planned. But that is OK because it means the participant took part in a way that was accessible, inclusive and comfortable for them."
I have a stack of things to add to Plain English Club Bookmarks. I also need to send a first newsletter of 2026. And turn the whole thing into a blog. I still think Bookmarks is a really brill resource. www.plainenglish.club/bookmarks/
Plain English Bookmarks: free clear language resources
A growing directory of 220+ articles, tools, talks and resources to help you write and design clear, accessible content.
www.plainenglish.club
January 13, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I have a stack of things to add to Plain English Club Bookmarks. I also need to send a first newsletter of 2026. And turn the whole thing into a blog. I still think Bookmarks is a really brill resource. www.plainenglish.club/bookmarks/
Thanks @timapple.com! The good news is that I just about remember it. The podcast was called Write for Your Life and it still lives right here. This final episode was almost exactly 10 years ago. wfyl.captivate.fm/episode/red-...
January 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Thanks @timapple.com! The good news is that I just about remember it. The podcast was called Write for Your Life and it still lives right here. This final episode was almost exactly 10 years ago. wfyl.captivate.fm/episode/red-...
I've been trying to write a review of my 2025, but various tasks keep getting in the way and actually, perhaps this sentence itself is all that is needed.
January 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
I've been trying to write a review of my 2025, but various tasks keep getting in the way and actually, perhaps this sentence itself is all that is needed.
Just watched The Golden Compass with the kids and without getting too technical, I can say that it’s a load of old tripe. Worst film ever territory.
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Just watched The Golden Compass with the kids and without getting too technical, I can say that it’s a load of old tripe. Worst film ever territory.
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - 01/01/2026
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
A little New Years Day treat!
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
A little New Years Day treat!
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Internet of Public Service Jobs - 01/01/2026
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
A little New Years Day treat!
newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
A little New Years Day treat!
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Oh yeah and there's a UX Sky feed!
December 31, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Oh yeah and there's a UX Sky feed!
This is a fantastic list of design folks here on Bluesky.
It also explains my overnight bump in followers, which I initially put down to my important announcement about having tidied my desk. Thanks for including me @spavel.bsky.social. 🙏
It also explains my overnight bump in followers, which I initially put down to my important announcement about having tidied my desk. Thanks for including me @spavel.bsky.social. 🙏
One of my goals for bsky has been to rebuild Design Twitter. But what we got instead was something better: Design Bsky.
December 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This is a fantastic list of design folks here on Bluesky.
It also explains my overnight bump in followers, which I initially put down to my important announcement about having tidied my desk. Thanks for including me @spavel.bsky.social. 🙏
It also explains my overnight bump in followers, which I initially put down to my important announcement about having tidied my desk. Thanks for including me @spavel.bsky.social. 🙏
I have spent several hours attempting to tidy my desk/office/general tip area and I have to say it is now slightly better than it was before.
December 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I have spent several hours attempting to tidy my desk/office/general tip area and I have to say it is now slightly better than it was before.
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Bonus anniversary content: it’s ten years since this winning name/title combination on BBC News
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Bonus anniversary content: it’s ten years since this winning name/title combination on BBC News
Managed to pop out a last Plain English Club newsletter before Christmas. Contains all sorts of goodies for content designers and other clear language enthusiasts.
www.plainenglish.club/inevitable-a...
www.plainenglish.club/inevitable-a...
Inevitable acronyms
A guide to Figma, how to name services, accessible visual content, and the effect of AI on accessible communications.
www.plainenglish.club
December 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Managed to pop out a last Plain English Club newsletter before Christmas. Contains all sorts of goodies for content designers and other clear language enthusiasts.
www.plainenglish.club/inevitable-a...
www.plainenglish.club/inevitable-a...
Important information.
The loose flap of skin around the elbow is called the what n...
The loose flap of skin around the elbow is called the what now??
kottke.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Important information.
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A website dedicated to laptops and their stickers. Hundreds of them.
stickertop.art
Thanks @kottke.org
stickertop.art
Thanks @kottke.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A website dedicated to laptops and their stickers. Hundreds of them.
stickertop.art
Thanks @kottke.org
stickertop.art
Thanks @kottke.org
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The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The true pleasure of Bluesky.
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
"When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."
Bagged my copy.
So I’ve channelled all my angst (and a lot of spare time, thanks to a slow Q4) into writing a zine about this. It's called Spite House: AI, disintermediation and the end of the free web.
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Bagged my copy.
New tool from for managing your projects from 37 Signals. Kanban but without all the enormous guff you get with Jira and, these days, Trello. 👀 www.fizzy.do
Fizzy
A refreshing take on cards, columns, and kanban.
www.fizzy.do
December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New tool from for managing your projects from 37 Signals. Kanban but without all the enormous guff you get with Jira and, these days, Trello. 👀 www.fizzy.do
Currently reading L.A. Baby by the marvellous Tim Key and it is, as you might expect, very funny. But also moving and thought-provoking and yes, daft. www.utterandpress.co.uk/products/l-a...
L.A. BABY!
Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly fillin...
www.utterandpress.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Currently reading L.A. Baby by the marvellous Tim Key and it is, as you might expect, very funny. But also moving and thought-provoking and yes, daft. www.utterandpress.co.uk/products/l-a...
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I love the remix of Radiohead’s Everything In Its Right Place in the midst of Kelly Lee Owens’ Boiler Room set (~33:50 mark). Had me chair dancing this AM! [soundcloud.com]
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I love the remix of Radiohead’s Everything In Its Right Place in the midst of Kelly Lee Owens’ Boiler Room set (~33:50 mark). Had me chair dancing this AM! [soundcloud.com]
Am I the only person in the world who still uses an RSS reader to follow blogs and whatnot?
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Am I the only person in the world who still uses an RSS reader to follow blogs and whatnot?
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“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]
Alchemy
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
joshcollinsworth.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We are interested in art, in any and all of its forms, because humans made it. That’s the very thing that makes it interesting; the who, the how, and especially the why.” [joshcollinsworth.com]
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
His excellency @gazaston.com shared this by @capwatkins.com with me earlier this year. I have found it a tremendous help in negotiating tricky conversations at work and... with the kids?
capwatkins.com/blog/the-sli...
capwatkins.com/blog/the-sli...
Cap Watkins – The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck
capwatkins.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
His excellency @gazaston.com shared this by @capwatkins.com with me earlier this year. I have found it a tremendous help in negotiating tricky conversations at work and... with the kids?
capwatkins.com/blog/the-sli...
capwatkins.com/blog/the-sli...
With new technology and AI changing industries all over the place, to keep with the times I’m thinking about turning Plain English Club into not just a newsletter, but also a… blog. Like, primarily a linkblog? As if it were 2005 again?
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
With new technology and AI changing industries all over the place, to keep with the times I’m thinking about turning Plain English Club into not just a newsletter, but also a… blog. Like, primarily a linkblog? As if it were 2005 again?
Latest Plain English Club newsletter features:
– specialised language
– writing online content by @sheltercharity.bsky.social
– designing for people on the autism spectrum
– designing user-centred AI labels
Also, @cjforms.bsky.social on not using 'reading age' when talking about adults.
– specialised language
– writing online content by @sheltercharity.bsky.social
– designing for people on the autism spectrum
– designing user-centred AI labels
Also, @cjforms.bsky.social on not using 'reading age' when talking about adults.
Specialised language
Designing for people with autism, using specialised language, not 'owning' the words, and some AI label testing.
www.plainenglish.club
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Latest Plain English Club newsletter features:
– specialised language
– writing online content by @sheltercharity.bsky.social
– designing for people on the autism spectrum
– designing user-centred AI labels
Also, @cjforms.bsky.social on not using 'reading age' when talking about adults.
– specialised language
– writing online content by @sheltercharity.bsky.social
– designing for people on the autism spectrum
– designing user-centred AI labels
Also, @cjforms.bsky.social on not using 'reading age' when talking about adults.