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I’m putting together a guide on tips for running inclusive online workshops, what are your top tips or resources? 🥰🙏🏽#TwitterHiveMind #inclusion #accessibility #a11y #workshops #facilitation #tips

@maui_tony @Sadie_NC @AngelaBelcamino This is a great example of what she is talking about, she can’t mention being happy not having kids without a pile on happening!

@Sadie_NC @AngelaBelcamino Fighting the patriarchy!? Are you kidding? The patriarchy loves loose women with no morals! They have their fun, and when they want to get married, they avoid women like you! They don’t want some loose loser to raise their kids! 42? Enjoy the short shelf life you have left!

I’m 42. Child-free. It’s Friday night. No babysitter needed. Can I get a cheers?

@TheCinesthetic bridge to terabithia

The hardest you’ve ever cried during a movie was…

@alz_zyd_ We do something a bit like this in a course, people watch a video (15-25min) a few days/hours before class then we meet on a call to chat and do a practical activity. Seems to be working, we’ve run it 3 times now & save about 15 hours of facilitator time over 14 week course

Once during COVID, I was at a virtual conference; a PhD student was presenting and was like, "it's 3am here and I'm really tired, so, here's what I'm going to do. I'll play a prerecorded video of me giving me talk, and if you have any questions, I'll pause it and answer"

@mssinenomine We usually anonymise our research to protect participant privacy and helps reduce risk of unintended harm, but I have also been interviewed for research where I was given a choice to be identified if I wanted to be. Would they be open to changing their consent process maybe?

I said no to an academic (whose work I respect) who asked to meet with me for research. It would have involved me talking about work I do, my analysis, how I incorporate certain frameworks. And then it was going to be anonymized. I asked if academics anonymize their own work.

@hpdailyrant digitalnsw.github.io/nsw-design-sys…

@hpdailyrant NSW gov had their design system integrating with figma in 2022 not sure how automated that was though

@CelesteFinally Switch to a new psychiatrist, its a pain but plenty of them give adult diagnosed folks meds

@FromPhDtoLife Where I work, lots of staff are trusted to have company credit cards or they can book through the company travel system or a colleagues company credit card

University reimbursement culture means you're regularly lending money to your employer, yet they never pay you back with interest. It's frustrating that this is the norm in academia. What's the situation at your workplace?

Autistic/ADHD/dyspraxic people: if you were asking for accommodations at work, what would you ask for? I’ve been asked but am struggling to think of what would actually help.

I launched Zoom today, and I was dismayed to see they've added a mail feature. This is a classic example of kitchen-sink product development, and it's not a good thing. First, I find it hard to believe that their customers were saying "I'll stop using Zoom today unless you add a mail feature." Building a feature that nobody wants is a colossal waste of money--a gift that keeps on giving since you have to maintain it, deal with the additional complexity in the system, &c. Once the product loses focus, it's all to easy to waste money working on other features nobody wants. The main problem, however, is opportunity cost. I, as a teacher/customer, have told them "I hate the break-out room implementation so much that I've moved to a different platform when I teach classes." While they waste time on a feature nobody wants, they are not working on things that people _do_ want. The cost of _not_ improving the product in important ways is huge.

We talk about the importance of Design Engineers, Designers Who Code, Product Engineers… but it all boils down to having a tight team of people who cares about what they ship, end to end. This requires nurturing certain skills that go beyond your own role.

“Nurses are bad at using technology” is a terrible framing in healthcare tech. More accurate: Nurses are too busy doing their jobs to deal with complexity in every one of the dozens of UIs they have to deal with.

@nathanacurtis Some of the folks I think are experts have been working in the space for a good amount of time, maybe in a couple of different orgs or domains, have had some ups and downs ☺️ I have a little twitter lists of some great folks working in this space!

I'm curious: by what criteria would you qualify someone a design system "expert?"

@somefinetweets The government digital agency in the UK trained their designers to do basic coding in the early 2010s, there’s something to be said for knowing how things work from a tech perspective aswell as user needs. But on the flip side, you don’t want to have to do the job of 3 people :(

Unpopular opinion: front end eng with UX capabilities is far more likely to take your job than AI is… and this trend will continue.

@LudoDidymus @RBASHAGGER What people spend their money on doesn’t really matter. For lots of folks living in a big city, it would take them 20 years to save a deposit even if they weren’t spending any money at all except essentials (eg. Rent/food/not having kids), which is a long time to be saving right?

To be fair many people willingly overburden themselves with unnecessary debt too. Credit card, car loans, useless degrees, online gambling, partying, expensive holidays,rampant consumerism etc. Everyone is different but alot of people have allowed themselves to ve a victim of their own greed

Had a great dinner last night with a boomer couple who gave their 40-year old son $500k for a deposit on a home.I then had breakfast with that 40year old son this morning and he was telling me how he worked hard to come up with his $500k deposit for that home and did all himself

@POSMarketer You should check out accidentally wes anderson, its not about everyone being an artist but sort of is at the same time

Say you have a friend that wants to improve their skills with design systems. What’s the first book would you recommend? Caveat: you CAN’T recommend a book that’s specifically about design systems. It must be about a different skill that will help them in design system work.

@hpdailyrant I love when you share an impactful quote from user research and you later here stakeholders sharing the quote with others 🥹 Especially if they were hard to bring around to the idea of doing research in the first place 💃

Hoping to lean on twitter #hivemind 🤔Anyone used a good tool for sharing books (about research + design, think: Interviewing Users, Don’t make me think, Just enough research, etc) with team members around the country. One that pays authors 🥹 And not overly expensive 💳

Recently designers have been talking about calendars. As an individual contributor one thing I’m missing is a way to indicate that meetings have a larger impact on my focus time than just the allotted time. I threw together a quick prototype to concept an idea: “Blast radius”