Michael Gearon
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Michael Gearon
@michaelgearon.bsky.social
Senior Interaction Designer at Government Digital Service (GDS) • Co-Author of Tiny CSS Projects • Working between Cardiff & Bristol

https://mgearon.com
Probably because they were slowly falling out of popularity over time on Twitter and other platforms so people haven’t rediscovered them on here
October 22, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Watch out for those pesky leaves
October 22, 2024 at 1:06 PM
It is a similar situation with cookie banners. Most public services you have to accept/decline cookies multiple times as you switch between systems as they don't have a shared understanding of the user preferences
October 22, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Discoveries can feel like walking through an open field, refreshing, until you realise it is also a minefield
October 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
There is a lot of work to do around how do we talk and share about the design of internal digital products within government. What and how that looks like is unclear. But I suspect that more time will be spent on the back office processes in the future as the frontend of services matures
October 18, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Setting aside the asking for information that is not needed, the design could do with some tweaking 👀
October 15, 2024 at 7:39 PM
It’s never too early for a mince pie
October 14, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Is there also a hidden or a dependent trust: relying on others, organisations or an underlying technology that contributes to the operation of the service. I'd say this is the riskiest one, as it can often go unnoticed until it goes wrong, such as the CrowdStrike outage
October 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM