Interesting that Microsoft, Google et al are shoehorning "AI" into their email clients urging people to use it to "draft an email to Tracy in sales congratulating her on the last quarter results, and ask for a forecast for this quarter".

Dude, you just wrote […]

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So a minor upgrade to MacOS is now an almost 15GB download.

Modern software is so bloated.

#macos #software

This was how deep the snow was that day.

225mm or 10 inches for those unfathomably wedded to imperial units.

Pre-Covid, I would routinely walk the 3.5 miles there and back.

Wasn't a big deal. Sometimes, like when the "Beast from the East" hit, I was literally the only person in the office.

All the trains and buses were canceled. I just put my snow boots on and tramped through Kelvingrove Park.

In the office(!) tomorrow, so planning to cycle there.

Weather's not looking great, but it seldom does at the end of October.

Managed to #walk about 2.5km up a coastal path today.

With my flavour of #ataxia that felt like a bit of a triumph.

Sadly, wasn't able to make it to the next village and had to turn back. Absolutely exhausted and utterly empty by the time I did so.

But I did.

#userresearch is hard.

Especially when you have users all over the world.

A colleague in #ux research needed some help on a project I'm not involved in.

My calendar now looks like this.

I cycled over 20 miles today.

File under things I thought I would never say again.

Seems ahrefsbot has been crawling all over our blog ... thousands of http requests per week for a blog that has about 120 posts and a handful of pages. And which gets updated maybe once every couple of weeks.

That's just unreasonable, an unacceptable an […]

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This is my favourite #uselessui dialog.

There is what appears to be a heading asking "Stay signed in?"

It's not a heading, although it does have a role=heading and aria-leval=1 attributes. Both of which would be entirely unnecessary if you just made this an […]

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Tube maps are a great way to illustrate a high level picture of how a user might navigate a service / journey / experience. People just seem to "grok" them.

We made a #miro template you can use to get you started.

#servicedesign

https://miro.com/miroverse/tube-map/

It started like this.

New #teams background.

An image by Turner Prize winning artist and #glasgow College of Art alumnus, David Shrigley.

But in a meeting yesterday a colleague gave a demo of a new service we've introduced, on sour site and said it was based on work I'd done.

I expressed surprise. (Actually, I said, "What have I done now?")

It was based on this service landscape map I worked […]

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Had to remind some folks today that making postal codes mandatory is not optimal.

They come in flavours of 3-10 numeric characters (which you can't treat as numbers) or 6-8 alphanumeric strings. And some countries/territories just don't use them at all.

Like […]

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I used @zachleat's web component to make it snow in the header image of our blog.

That's me wrapping up for 2024. See y'all next year,

https://design.scotentblog.co.uk/