Dan Craddock
@slowburnweb.bsky.social
Wurundjeri land. He/him/his. I help make government digital services better. I like and post about good design, rock’n’roll, cricket, and general silliness. Views are my own.
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Dan Craddock
@slowburnweb.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Advice for all younger UXers: good design training and books are essential for underpinning your skills and knowledge. But you’ll rarely find a workplace or client that will let you apply them the way they tell you, the way they should be. Make peace with this and make progress.
Forms UX practitioners: what is an optimal pattern for asking for an email address or mobile number, where the user must enter a response to one but it doesn't matter which one? cc @cjforms.bsky.social @adamsilverhq.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Forms UX practitioners: what is an optimal pattern for asking for an email address or mobile number, where the user must enter a response to one but it doesn't matter which one? cc @cjforms.bsky.social @adamsilverhq.bsky.social
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More damning that threatening, AI is cringe.
To my students at least.
For the last 2+ years I've been teaching a course built around conversations about AI and its implications, and each term I've been surprised at the shift in student attitudes.
To my students at least.
For the last 2+ years I've been teaching a course built around conversations about AI and its implications, and each term I've been surprised at the shift in student attitudes.
April 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
More damning that threatening, AI is cringe.
To my students at least.
For the last 2+ years I've been teaching a course built around conversations about AI and its implications, and each term I've been surprised at the shift in student attitudes.
To my students at least.
For the last 2+ years I've been teaching a course built around conversations about AI and its implications, and each term I've been surprised at the shift in student attitudes.
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Since leaving The Australian Peter and Gideon Haigh run a substack and podcast : "Cricket et al" where you can support their excellent (independent!) writing and chatter.
www.cricketetal.com
#CricketEtAl
#SEN
#cricket
www.cricketetal.com
#CricketEtAl
#SEN
#cricket
February 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Since leaving The Australian Peter and Gideon Haigh run a substack and podcast : "Cricket et al" where you can support their excellent (independent!) writing and chatter.
www.cricketetal.com
#CricketEtAl
#SEN
#cricket
www.cricketetal.com
#CricketEtAl
#SEN
#cricket
@henrywagons.bsky.social what’s theme tonight, Hank?
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
@henrywagons.bsky.social what’s theme tonight, Hank?
Melbournians, it’s 37C today - some of you are taking the piss by wearing a puffer jacket 🥵
January 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Melbournians, it’s 37C today - some of you are taking the piss by wearing a puffer jacket 🥵
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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
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It always amazes me just how much money people are prepared to spend to avoid doing the right thing.
Rather like the Dominos accessibility case in US, the amount of money that gets spent on explicitly blocking disabled people from services is extraordinary www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... That’s £100 million in 1 year to win 136 out of 10,000+ cases. #ableism #SEND
£100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support
Exclusive: Councils win just 1.2% of tribunals, as experts see signs provision is becoming a battle with desperate families
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:13 AM
It always amazes me just how much money people are prepared to spend to avoid doing the right thing.
@henrywagons.bsky.social good to see you over here! What’s tonight’s theme?
November 25, 2024 at 7:51 AM
@henrywagons.bsky.social good to see you over here! What’s tonight’s theme?
I switched for this reason, and received superior UX to boot!
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 16, 2024 at 8:20 PM
I switched for this reason, and received superior UX to boot!
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Raise concerns about Palantir's NHS lock-in and you'll be righteously branded as a privacy freak. Note the dangers of neglecting core capabilities for unproven AI being oversold by Microsoft and others and you're a Luddite or a digital NIMBY.
November 16, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Raise concerns about Palantir's NHS lock-in and you'll be righteously branded as a privacy freak. Note the dangers of neglecting core capabilities for unproven AI being oversold by Microsoft and others and you're a Luddite or a digital NIMBY.
Advice for all younger UXers: good design training and books are essential for underpinning your skills and knowledge. But you’ll rarely find a workplace or client that will let you apply them the way they tell you, the way they should be. Make peace with this and make progress.
November 12, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Advice for all younger UXers: good design training and books are essential for underpinning your skills and knowledge. But you’ll rarely find a workplace or client that will let you apply them the way they tell you, the way they should be. Make peace with this and make progress.
Not only do I consider this book to be a high watermark in cricket writing, it inspired me to a High Distinction in my first year at university, at a time I was deeply homesick and about to quit. www.harpercollins.com.au/978073332003...
Summer Game
'Outstanding this book ought to change the writing of cricket history by setting new standards the affect is evocative and powerful. Buy his book. It's bril...
www.harpercollins.com.au
November 12, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Not only do I consider this book to be a high watermark in cricket writing, it inspired me to a High Distinction in my first year at university, at a time I was deeply homesick and about to quit. www.harpercollins.com.au/978073332003...
Buffalo Springfield
Love
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Cold Chisel
The Cars
R.E.M
The Posies
You Am I
Love
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Cold Chisel
The Cars
R.E.M
The Posies
You Am I
Ten bands to get to know me (in no particular order):
Cabaret Voltaire
Orbital
Hawkwind
The Fall
Bob Dylan
Brian Eno
Test Dept.
Fela Kuti
Miles Davis
Einstuerzende Neubaten
Cabaret Voltaire
Orbital
Hawkwind
The Fall
Bob Dylan
Brian Eno
Test Dept.
Fela Kuti
Miles Davis
Einstuerzende Neubaten
November 12, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Buffalo Springfield
Love
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Cold Chisel
The Cars
R.E.M
The Posies
You Am I
Love
The Mamas & The Papas
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Cold Chisel
The Cars
R.E.M
The Posies
You Am I
Is the battle against FAQs and ‘click here’ links lost? Or just endless? 😥
November 12, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Is the battle against FAQs and ‘click here’ links lost? Or just endless? 😥
Does anyone have any articles/research they can refer to me about the need to dial down sales-y content about a product's features and benefits once the user has signed up or installed? i.e. we should switch the focus to onboarding and/or letting them just use it? #ux
September 9, 2024 at 6:43 AM
Does anyone have any articles/research they can refer to me about the need to dial down sales-y content about a product's features and benefits once the user has signed up or installed? i.e. we should switch the focus to onboarding and/or letting them just use it? #ux
When you spend $$$ and hours making a PDF accessible rather than simply creating an HTML page…
September 6, 2024 at 6:08 AM
When you spend $$$ and hours making a PDF accessible rather than simply creating an HTML page…
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Schrödinger's charity content:
- not important enough to fact check
- too important to archive
- not important enough to fact check
- too important to archive
September 2, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Schrödinger's charity content:
- not important enough to fact check
- too important to archive
- not important enough to fact check
- too important to archive