Sophie Dennis
@sophiedennis.bsky.social
Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
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New Talk UX Strategy live discussion on Monday, December 15 at noon ET.
What Information Architecture Means in an AI Chatbot World
Discover how successful UX teams push past natural language prompts to unlock innovative approaches that drive results.
RSVP: https://leaders.centercentre.com/
What Information Architecture Means in an AI Chatbot World
Discover how successful UX teams push past natural language prompts to unlock innovative approaches that drive results.
RSVP: https://leaders.centercentre.com/
December 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
New Talk UX Strategy live discussion on Monday, December 15 at noon ET.
What Information Architecture Means in an AI Chatbot World
Discover how successful UX teams push past natural language prompts to unlock innovative approaches that drive results.
RSVP: https://leaders.centercentre.com/
What Information Architecture Means in an AI Chatbot World
Discover how successful UX teams push past natural language prompts to unlock innovative approaches that drive results.
RSVP: https://leaders.centercentre.com/
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There is a flu emergency in the UK, hospitals are struggling. People are dying. Daily Telegraph front page today - "Badenoch attacks NHS order to wear face masks"
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
There is a flu emergency in the UK, hospitals are struggling. People are dying. Daily Telegraph front page today - "Badenoch attacks NHS order to wear face masks"
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FINAL book giveaway of the year.
To enter: reply below & repost this extract.
Up for grabs:
THREE signed Villager paperbacks with free art (bookmarks & postcards) by my parents.
Enter if you enjoy
Folklore
Nature
Rivers
Hills
Social history
Lost art
Ghost
Tangled psychedelic narratives
Silliness
To enter: reply below & repost this extract.
Up for grabs:
THREE signed Villager paperbacks with free art (bookmarks & postcards) by my parents.
Enter if you enjoy
Folklore
Nature
Rivers
Hills
Social history
Lost art
Ghost
Tangled psychedelic narratives
Silliness
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
FINAL book giveaway of the year.
To enter: reply below & repost this extract.
Up for grabs:
THREE signed Villager paperbacks with free art (bookmarks & postcards) by my parents.
Enter if you enjoy
Folklore
Nature
Rivers
Hills
Social history
Lost art
Ghost
Tangled psychedelic narratives
Silliness
To enter: reply below & repost this extract.
Up for grabs:
THREE signed Villager paperbacks with free art (bookmarks & postcards) by my parents.
Enter if you enjoy
Folklore
Nature
Rivers
Hills
Social history
Lost art
Ghost
Tangled psychedelic narratives
Silliness
“In 2022, a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health estimated that there had been over 330,000 excess deaths caused by austerity, one way or another, between 2012 and 2019” - Zoe Williams reviews The Museum of Austerity which has just arrived in London
“There must be some way, they insist, to stop spending all this money on people who aren’t well. Surely with the right incentives, they will just get better? … implicit in the state austerity has built: they’ll either get better or they’ll die.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams
A mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austeri...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“In 2022, a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health estimated that there had been over 330,000 excess deaths caused by austerity, one way or another, between 2012 and 2019” - Zoe Williams reviews The Museum of Austerity which has just arrived in London
“There must be some way, they insist, to stop spending all this money on people who aren’t well. Surely with the right incentives, they will just get better? … implicit in the state austerity has built: they’ll either get better or they’ll die.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams
A mindblowing new show reveals the human cost when the political system turns against the people, putting stories and faces to the hundreds of thousands of citizens thought to have died due to austeri...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“There must be some way, they insist, to stop spending all this money on people who aren’t well. Surely with the right incentives, they will just get better? … implicit in the state austerity has built: they’ll either get better or they’ll die.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Entirely typical of fundamental DWP mindset re claimants www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal
Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Entirely typical of fundamental DWP mindset re claimants www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I am so tired of waiting.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two-
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two-
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am so tired of waiting.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two-
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two-
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.
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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
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Last chance to snap up a hefty discount on ALL @rosenfeldmedia.com books and e-books.
If you’ve already got my book, thank you so much and have a look at the long list of other great options.
Ends midnight EST / 5am GMT / 6am CET
If you’ve already got my book, thank you so much and have a look at the long list of other great options.
Ends midnight EST / 5am GMT / 6am CET
🚨 Our Black Friday sale is still happening! 🚨
Through Friday, you can get 30% off paperbacks and 50% off ebooks at Rosenfeld! New releases, bestsellers, and old favorites...they're all on sale!
Shop the sale: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/
Through Friday, you can get 30% off paperbacks and 50% off ebooks at Rosenfeld! New releases, bestsellers, and old favorites...they're all on sale!
Shop the sale: rosenfeldmedia.com/books/
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Last chance to snap up a hefty discount on ALL @rosenfeldmedia.com books and e-books.
If you’ve already got my book, thank you so much and have a look at the long list of other great options.
Ends midnight EST / 5am GMT / 6am CET
If you’ve already got my book, thank you so much and have a look at the long list of other great options.
Ends midnight EST / 5am GMT / 6am CET
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I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design.
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I see people asking "I have UI skills, how do I get better at UX?" My answer is: learn content design.
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
You can't hide behind whizbang styling when your medium is a sentence with hyperlinks to other sentences. Starting with the content also breaks you out of seeing work as a screen to be "laid out".
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It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale.
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
A Modern Typographic Scale
Rob Weychert reaches for the top notes to sing us a song of typographic scale. A little attention to scale and to the mathematics will help you to hit a high note with your designs this Christmas and ...
24ways.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It being that time of year, I went to 24 Ways to bask in the knowledge there. Here’s a 2019 Rob Weychert post that still resonates: A Modern Typographic Scale.
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
24ways.org/2019/a-moder... #design #typography #UXUI #TypographicScales
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Moorland near Princetown last week. Of course because I can’t walk very far (a few metres at at time) the wild moors aren’t accessible to me, (also can’t sit in my wheelchair very long).
All my photos are taken by a road I frame them with a zoom lens or very tightly #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
All my photos are taken by a road I frame them with a zoom lens or very tightly #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
December 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Moorland near Princetown last week. Of course because I can’t walk very far (a few metres at at time) the wild moors aren’t accessible to me, (also can’t sit in my wheelchair very long).
All my photos are taken by a road I frame them with a zoom lens or very tightly #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
All my photos are taken by a road I frame them with a zoom lens or very tightly #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
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This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is in the running for my favorite lecture slide ever
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
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Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: cannabis users on their psychosis – and the clinic trying to help them
‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: cannabis users on their psychosis – and the clinic trying to help them
Katie hears voices and has been sectioned 50 times. Isiah became paranoid and tried to kill himself. Both link their illness to cannabis – and the drug is getting more and more potent. Is a tiny London clinic showing the way forward?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
‘I’d run down the road thinking I was God’: cannabis users on their psychosis – and the clinic trying to help them
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Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Author wrote best book he's ever written.
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings.
Book was finally published by new publisher.
Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed.
Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one..
bsky.app/profile/zygo...
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The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The more you look into the Prescott memo, the worse it gets
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Never forget
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Never forget
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A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A month ago I looked at what I called Labour's midlife crisis- an obsession with chasing socially conservative Reform-curious voters and ignoring groups of disaffected voters with social attitudes much closer to Labour voters. But some people thought there was method in their madness. Was there? 1/n
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"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t."
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Labour at the Margin...
...of survival
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November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"What I think Blue Labour believe is that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social (and maybe economic) issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t."
open.substack.com/pub/benansel...
open.substack.com/pub/benansel...