Dan Howarth

@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

@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

@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

It’s almost time for @HarrogateFest⁩ #theakstonscrime Who’s coming and feeling a bit shy or nervous? Me and @danhowarth want to gather a little tribe of us, using #HelloHarrogate so please share. Can’t wait to meet you all!

@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 : vickyteinaki.com/blog/a-plea-fo…

@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?

I wrote a quick thing during the pre-election period. It’s about quality: how people who work on public services don’t obsess about it enough, and how the levers we have to improve it aren’t really cutting it. Public luxuries, why not! 🤪 kubabartwicki.com/posts/public-l…

@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

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

@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

@danhowarth Yes! There are useful engineering techniques, like domain-driven design, Event Storming, state machines. But they’ve never really made it into design circles. In multi-modal UIs (eg voice, chat) I think the emphasis shifts a bit and we might see a change? What do you think?

Something I've been pondering: What's preventing us moving towards truly shared design artefacts for designers and developers? I don't know what it looks like, but I know what it doesn't look like:

@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

And yet, often, designers need to 'hand off' their work to developers to re-implement it for real. So what are the emerging ways to give design a direct path to production too?

@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.

TL;DR Sentence-style forms degrade UX because: 1. There’s more to read 2. There’s no space to show an error inline 3. Translation can break the layout 4. They break on mobile 5. They use placeholder text 6. They don’t look like a real form Just use a conventional layout.

Some designers think sentence-style forms are good UX. I get it, they’re novel and feel natural. But they degrade UX (and they’re so unnecessary). Let me explain by critiquing @hobdaydesign’s example mock up. (I’ll provide a fix at the end): twitter.com/hobdaydesign/s…

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

@Amy_Hupe What excellent foreshadowing

Not that I was a sensitive kid or anything but once I had a panic attack because our teacher bought a bottle of Shloer to our end of term class party and my friend told me it was real alcohol and I cried and had to be taken outside for air.

@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

@Danomanic @tdyounm #badgeOps

@Danomanic BADGESSSSSSSS 🔥

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

@danhowarth 🙌

@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

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