Kelly O'Brien

Sr. Content Designer @Hubspot. Hiking junkie, language weirdo, all-purpose nerd. Balconess of SE London. Tweets & swear words my own. (Avatar by @makowwka.)

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TFW you stop what you're writing to dramatically roll your eyes at your own damnable verbosity. 🙄

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@plaindocs No first-hand recommendations, but here’s a couple folks I follow on Instagram:
https://t.co/711nttg3qh
https://t.co/YG8QMctV25
https://t.co/l3w18LTqJD
https://t.co/0BN1HyVy3w (but she’s in, like, The New Yorker, so might be a bit out of budget 😉)

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TFW, you order a takeaway burger toward the end of the night, and it comes with The Bits!! ✨🍟✨

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@jcolman @amelia_granger Obviously, this is vital information for anyone who wants to be a productive member of British society. 😐

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@scribblingfox @casskhaw 😳😳😳

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@lebreeze @jmfryan Very impressive! Go team! 👏

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@jmfryan @lebreeze Or did you mean 🤩🤩🤩? 😉

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@jmfryan @lebreeze The Horizon Zero Dawn tall neck!! (It may have been on my wishlist for a while…)

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@jmfryan @lebreeze For the record? This is Emin’s fault.

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@jmfryan @lebreeze I respect this kid’s priorities: Spending time with Dad? Nah. Sending Dad off to the Code Mines so I can get a new set of Legos? Absolutely.

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@jmfryan @lebreeze Tactical and cruel. I respect it.

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@jmfryan @lebreeze (Excellent share, though, this is amazing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣)

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@jmfryan @lebreeze And now you’re making me read in Comic Sans!? 😱

Geez. I need to go to bed. …so I can get up in the morning, go to the office, and ask the man for money to buy toys.

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@jmfryan @lebreeze Jack. This is too real. It is 11pm, I cannot bear this level of realness. 🥲🙃🫠

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@Katstodian_ @ArielRobinson1 @ZelWms Um, yes please, me too!!

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Hi! 👋 This is still true! 💯 Bye! 😘

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OH: Content design happens in those beautiful moments between rants. 😅

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I just went by a sign that read “Norwood Exiles Cricket Club,” and now I’m gleefully imagining the tempest of dumb social politics that led to The Great Schism of the Norwood Cricket Society. 😂😂😂

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@britneynmack Figma (content & IA explorations, prototyping)
FigJam (diagramming, whiteboarding, workshops)
Dropbox Paper (design documentation)
iPad w/GoodNotes (for fast notetaking )

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@Katstodian_ Incredible progress. Way more fun than paving! 👏👏👏

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@strangetimespdx Of the ones on my shelf that I’ve lent to non-designers, I think O reach for the Indi Young ‘Mental Models’ book most often. https://t.co/X0mkMTi9td

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@Katstodian_ Silly paving gifs aside, I vote for something that gets you fully into your body and out of your head. Do a yoga. Hike a hike. Just a bunch of breathing? Get that parasympathetic nervous system doin’ its thing!

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@Katstodian_ I’m not really convinced that ‘excelling’ is an option for that particular activity…