Matt Thomas

UX Designer. Tweets about design, running, horse racing and Spurs.

[Matt Thomas @phocusphox]

@willjb88 Good! I came out of tweeting retirement to send that, so I’m glad it landed!

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@chatabix1 2nd song gave me a tingle, thought it was very ‘The Killers’ and found out their front lad co-wrote the thing! Great little song that. Crunch crunch!

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@thespieler How much might we read into the supreme and CH being near identical times, Matt? It’s not been mentioned too many places i read / listen / watch, so I guess ‘not much to none’ is the answer??

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@johnsfurcoat Joyous show tonight, John! I feel like the watch needs explaining…it stopped working, so instead of putting in a new battery I set one face to the time I met my wife, and the other to when I proposed. Now a I get a memory hit at each glance, similar to perfume!

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@DanBarberTF @paulfergusonJTF Great, thanks Dan!

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@DanBarberTF @paulfergusonJTF What about him (or any a-another horse) makes you say that? Is it purely size / shape / pace (or lack of?).

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@RadioEmmet Dennis was fantastic on this week’a FFP. The advice for young riders followed by talk about the whip was fantastic half hour or so! Nice work.

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@RadioEmmet @_Davy_Russel_ @talkSPORT2 @LeopardstownRC Was only just listening to the Pod an hour ago and the 3 of you were joking how annoyed O’Regan would be…brilliant!

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@itvracing Looking forward to watching Minella Indo, Stattler and the race smash it out over 1m4f!

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@PaulKealy they’re not laughing at us with the Zanza cliff horse, now! Well done holding steady with him, Paul!

[Matt Thomas @phocusphox]

What is happening to this platform. A new owner trying to make it a space for all to be heard, whilst at the same time removing the awesome people that make it accessible to all.

We’re on a burning platform. Bad times now. Worse ahead.

[https://gerardkcohen.me @gerardkcohen]

I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵

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@RowleyfileRRR Boodles

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@tannerc Ah nice, thanks! I’ve never framed those things as celebrating successes before, but it’s a nice framing of it which I’ll take forward. I like it! 🙌🏻

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@tannerc What might a celebration of one’s own work looks like?

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@Aartitoday @danachis 🙌🏻

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@AtTheRaces @Ascot @patjsmullen @MCYeeehaaa @RowleyfileRRR is this it?

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

With #RoyalAscot looming large, we've put together an alternative depiction of some of horse racing's most iconic soundbites...

[Matt Thomas @phocusphox]

I wonder what time @chrissiesmiles would have finished the Sub8 event in, with all the pacers and everything?

Would have been damn exciting!

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[Matt Thomas @phocusphox]

Love this.

Reminds me of the way we ask questions in Visual Thinking sessions like Design Critique.

“…What more can we can we find?”

A simple question which can be applied anywhere, be it critiquing a new UI or understanding what might have gone wrong.

Do more of this.

[Jared Spool @jmspool]

I’ve never felt comfortable with the “Five Whys” approach to identifying problem root causes.

Let me tell you why.

The approach is that you ask why 5 times.

The first why gets you a immediate cause of the problem.

The 2nd tells you what causes that immediate cause.

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