Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon

Design & Research | Dyslexic designing cyber security at @elastic previously GDS, MoJ Digital, HMRC Digital, Virginia Money

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@abbott567 @Martin_Jordan Most people don't know hoe to stop. Often the business case has been written signed off and committed to.

There's an art to giving people a way to say they've changed their mind because of new information.

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@Amy_Hupe Also Chat GPT can probably help you when you get stuck

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@Amy_Hupe I’m sure you could/can acheve some things in Figma that you’d find it hard to do in code. But I’ve always find it fools me in to not thinking about things like assassability and content structure.

[Andy Budd @andybudd]

Founders discovering what designers and design researchers have been saying the past 20+ years.

[IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation @ixdf_org]

Numerous studies have been done on the mobile menu (hamburger) display affordance.

A study by James Foster found a word menu with a border had a much higher conversion rate than a menu without a border - and no hamburger was involved!

Read more: https://t.co/cXTCO9x1Le

[Adam Silver @adamsilverhq]

1. Make your product so simple there’s nothing to explain

2. Show the content so users don’t exert energy to reveal it

3. Use a clearly labelled toggle that shows the content on click

Nothing fancy.

Just design that works over design that looks nice.

[Adam Silver @adamsilverhq]

Live form validation hurts UX.

Here’s why 👇

[Kara Kane @KaraKane_kk]

Always a good reminder for people designing services: You are not your user. I'd also add that your colleague is usually not your user either.
#GovDesign

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

Go work with Stephen! He’s amazing in every way

[Stephen McCarthy @loft27design]

Hi folks - I'm looking for a Senior User Researcher (starting salary up to £57k) to come work with me @WhichUK. It's a great place to work. You'll be helping people with the work you do, and you'll be doing it in a supportive environment. https://t.co/PffziXpdLv

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@abbott567 It so good to be working with you!

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@Amy_Hupe For me it’s the people. Other departments I’ve worked in are mostly the same.

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

Hello 🐘[email protected] 👋

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

I just updated IA Presenter; it's so nice to see and read the demo presentations.

This really stands out:
"every time you speak, you need to have something to say."

The focus of better presentation not better software. Nice work 🐘[email protected]

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@sonia_turcotte I’m talking headings. For long form I agree.

Also maybe this is why my eyes hurt all the time!?

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

Do you know what annoys me? Designers using text that's not quite black. If it's almost black, make it black, please. It just makes everyone's life easier.

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@loft27design This was the source of my frustration!

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

ShopPay has a neat little thing to send you a code to prefill your details.

But I just spent 10 mins looking for the code in my email account only to realise they sent it as SMS.

The important information is above the heading which grabs your eye and directs it to the fields

[Kate Tarling @kateldn]

All organisations are becoming service organisations. Most weren't built to deliver services successfully, end to end - and the human, operational and financial impacts are abundantly clear. (1/9)

[Gavin Wye is on Bluesky & Mastodon @gavinwye]

@kateldn 👏 Congratulations! Can’t wait to read it