Dan Howarth

Structured content design in UK gov. Only maintaining this profile to keep in touch with those who haven’t left yet.

[Dan Howarth @danhowarth]

@Pocket Gutting news. Love @Pocket. Always dreamed that one day, I would read my bookmarks. Thanks for everything you’ve done – it’s a truly great app. All the very best to everyone involved

[Dan Howarth @danhowarth]

@BeeNetwork Hi. There isn’t enough capacity on a morning on the Altrincham to Piccadilly and Bury lines. I couldn’t get on 2 trams yesterday morning, and barely squeezed on the third. They were full to bursting point and must be a health and safety issue

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@MCRMetrolink Hi. There isn’t enough capacity on a morning on the Altrincham to Piccadilly and Bury lines. I couldn’t get on 2 trams this morning. They were full to bursting point and must be a health and safety issue

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@MrKelly2u @HarrogateFest I mean, I would love to chat about crime lit in Harrogate, but no one invited me. Is it maybe @danhowarth20 you meant to tag? I’ll have a bookmark though, please

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@kubabartwicki Reminds me of @vickytnz’s excellent post on the absence of IA in gov design. We need services that are joined-up, consistent and make sense : https://t.co/Qe2UGYnzdF

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@kubabartwicki Nice, Kuba. Is there also the sense that ‘better’ services can reduce failure demand and waste in the system. And help people get the things they need quicker, so they can enjoy the free things around them?

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@dandoescontent Yeah thanks to @MattEason for sharing that ADR. Hadn’t seen it. Wasn’t easy to access Maslow, so low usage may have been due to its low profile. But it’s a shame user needs have such little currency

[Dan Howarth @danhowarth]

@dandoescontent They’re a goner. Retired last year along with Maslow, where user needs were documented

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@jamiemill Yeah for defs. I guess OOUX is kinda DDD-lite, but even that is very niche. Multi-modal UIs will bring a massive change, design will need to be UI-agnostic. But I think adoption is still a world away for most organisations

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@jamiemill Hear hear. I’d like to see us design for data and information flow, instead of user interfaces. Which’ll be crucial as products become more modular. But modelling techniques can be alien to designers, so we need to colonise them

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@adamsilverhq Will there be an issue for screen readers too? They won't be able to read out complete sentences, because of all the input controls that need to be read out?

No disrespect to @hobdaydesign, but I don't see what value single-sentence forms can bring to users.

[Dan Howarth @danhowarth]

@Danomanic Sir Topham must've been surprised at Thomas's punctuality. None of the usual high jinks?

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@Amy_Hupe What excellent foreshadowing

[Dan Howarth @danhowarth]

@HarryBailey I take solace in the hope that one day, when I’m long gone, some cyber archaeologist will unearth all my half-finished PowerPoint decks, and prove my genius

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@Danomanic @tdyounm #badgeOps

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@Danomanic BADGESSSSSSSS 🔥

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@tdyounm Dan's next project is Jira badges, rite @Danomanic?

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@Danomanic Gonna need to go for a longer one now to see how many levels there are and what happens to the progress indicator, dammit

[Dan Howarth @danhowarth]

I finally went for a run. And it was frickin worth it for all those lovely badges. Nice work Dan 👌