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James 🐕
@jjy.me
(he/him) 🏳️‍🌈
Climber and professional eaterer
Used to be @jamesjingyi on the bird app
www.jjy.me // sky@jjy.me
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UX Designer at Isotoma, York
York and Leeds NUX
Seriously recommend the app Particle - shows you reporting from multiple news sources, how they distribute from left to right, and allows quick summaries, all for free!

Great UX, kudos to the developers!

apps.apple.com/gb/app/parti...
‎Particle News
‎Understand more, faster. Particle removes the work of keeping up with what's happening by bringing everything you need to know into one place. PERSONALIZED NEWS Keep up with the topics that matter ...
apps.apple.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
To my fellow Leeds/York designers, there are still tickets available for this Thursday's (4th Sept) NUX event at Brew Society, partly being hosted by our very own Kimberley Bottomley 💚

There's also the promise of free pizza and drinks! 🍕
From Coaching to UX: Designing Change That Sticks
Learn about the benefits of a coaching mindset and the overlap between that and design thinking and more!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think it’s kinda wild that more than 90% of the brand guidelines I receive (from large branding agencies!) don’t meet WCAG AA on lots of their recommended colour pairings — I shouldn’t have to go back and ask you to re-select accessible combinations, surely that’s part of the selection process?
August 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
You can tell I spend too much time with fonts… Immediately spotted that something was ‘wrong’ with the typography of one of our apps (in a test env). Turns out it wasn’t correctly pulling Lato, and instead was falling back to Roboto. Didn’t think I would have noticed but it seemed clear as day!
January 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So sad to hear about @vickytnz.bsky.social, also a key member of @nuxuk.bsky.social, and always bubbly and happy

We’ll miss you 💚
So sad to hear Vicky has died, such an integral part of the UCD community.

Inspirational in the work she shared through her writing, her involvement with @nuxuk.bsky.social and the always must-read 📚 book recommendations provided.

I'll miss her.
Devastated by the sudden loss and passing of our dear friend Vicky. She was a kind, thoughtful and all round amazing person. So much integrity and sincerity

Thinking of you Vicky ❤️
@vickytnz.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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So sad to hear Vicky has died, such an integral part of the UCD community.

Inspirational in the work she shared through her writing, her involvement with @nuxuk.bsky.social and the always must-read 📚 book recommendations provided.

I'll miss her.
Devastated by the sudden loss and passing of our dear friend Vicky. She was a kind, thoughtful and all round amazing person. So much integrity and sincerity

Thinking of you Vicky ❤️
@vickytnz.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
London’s fireworks really on point this year, brat segment got an actual squeal from me
January 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect

you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed
February 27, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Ok so I need to tell BlueSky more about what I want to see via posts so I’m just gonna post some of the useful things I use in my UX role…

All of these are on my Notion at jjy.me/resources/list

First!

An amazing resource for finding components in loads of design systems

component.gallery
Home
The Component Gallery is a collection of components from the best Design Systems.
component.gallery
October 23, 2024 at 10:39 PM
STOP ✋ if you are reading this, you've reached a Pokémon check point. You’re now obligated to share your favorite Pokémon.

I love Growlithes! They are my favourite lil fire doggos and I have spent way too much time grinding for good ones on every game 🔥🐕
October 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by James 🐕
Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato
December 23, 2023 at 12:49 AM
For designers on Mac who are delivering stuff for those on Windows, made a useful comparison for myself of the fonts that come pre-installed in Windows ✨ 🎨

Most useful for delivering documents without having to ask someone to install a font so they don’t break formatting 😅
December 13, 2023 at 3:14 PM
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hello, good morning

i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off
December 12, 2023 at 5:36 PM
Interesting to see Leica baking in some ‘made without AI’ stuff into their latest cameras, seems like a direct jab at the Pixel 8/Adobe’s new AI editing bits

leica-camera.com/en-GB/photog...
Leica Content Credentials in the M11-P | Leica Camera UK
The M11-P is the first camera in the world to store metadata in line with the Content Authenticity Initiative.
leica-camera.com
October 27, 2023 at 12:25 PM
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Yes that includes you.
October 19, 2023 at 5:02 PM
Created some new device frames for the 15 Pro Max today as I managed to get my order in! Feel free to use, and lemme know if you do! ✨📱
GitHub - jamesjingyi/mockup-device-frames: Device frames for creating mockups
Device frames for creating mockups. Contribute to jamesjingyi/mockup-device-frames development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 15, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Fully customisable action button eeek
September 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
UK Gov: We’re gonna ban disposable vapes!

But not: We’re gonna set a standard that manufacturers have to follow for tops and bottoms so you can fit any top to any bottom

Result: Owners will now own like 5 different battery bases and have to be brand loyal

No thinking 🙄
September 12, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Really excited for the Apple Event as per… Might hark back to my live-tweeting old days, so would love others to discuss with!  🍎

Every year I go ‘no I won’t upgrade’ but every year I do… I’ve loved my 14 Pro Max, but I’m sure I’ll love my 15 Pro Max just as much! 📱
September 12, 2023 at 10:58 AM
Went swimming in Beningrough and met some friends! 🐄☀️
September 10, 2023 at 3:47 PM
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when your twitter friends show up on bluesky
September 8, 2023 at 3:26 AM
If any designers, developers or others are looking for device frames, I’ve just collated a load, including Android and Windows ones (some which I had to make!) ✨📱💻🖥️

Find em all free here:
GitHub - jamesjingyi/mockup-device-frames: Device frames for creating mockups
Device frames for creating mockups. Contribute to jamesjingyi/mockup-device-frames development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 8, 2023 at 6:47 PM
Drop something blue from your gallery 💙
September 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Obligatory hiya! Hoping this is what I miss from the days of twttr 🐦, hoping to build up a nice network like I had there!

I’m a UX designer 🧑‍💻, but just generally enjoy tech, photography, design and climbing - hoping this can be my new chill spot ✨
September 8, 2023 at 2:46 PM