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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What are people’s thoughts and reckons about how to resolve goals of a survey being in tension?

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What's the white label/basic CSS framework of today to help quickly chuck together a simple accessible website?

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Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Last day at this job today. Yes, i need a new one. Quickly too, so for a brief time only - snap up a bargain (me) at never before heard of rates (true).

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Do I know / do you know any really solid content designers who would be able to join a team on an alpha (and beta)? It’d be outside and 3 days a week so suits someone who needs flexibility

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Please teams. Don't make me look at this misaligned logo all day 😱

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Has Word created a feature yet like the red or blue underline for “this sounds like AI/management shite”?

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Business banking app. Use the savings account to whack most of the business money in it to earn interest. Current account kept low to maximise savings interest Everytime I open the app “your funds are low”… no pal. They’re literally just earning me money like you tell me to do kthxbye

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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 23/11/2025

A great article on 'one thing per page' grillopress.github.io/2019/01/31/o...

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One thing per page

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

If you missed it off linkedin here’s my blog spam for a recent blog post about prototyping. Thoughts about the value of using code but also getting behind your material skills with the urm… material grillopress.github.io/2025/10/27/p...

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Creating prototypes constrained by the medium not our skills or understanding

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Provocotype Provcatype Provokatype Provotype Pro- Provoking prototype Prototypes that provoke A few words on them… grillopress.github.io/2025/10/04/p...

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Provoking through prototypes

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Noticed a trend and I’m guessing it’s a trained thing. Large companies when dealing with complaints will make people on the phone be really passive aggressive about “oh it’s not ME or MY FAULT [horrific failure from company]” And it’s like …duh I’m talking to an organisation not Bob on the helpline

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Anyone got any recommendations about good websites to buy custom build pcs from?

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Dealing with one of those “if it was cheap and easy to sign up we’ll make it hell to stop” services 🫩

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Someone on LinkedIn has “reinvented” the service blueprint and thinks we need a new name for ux and service design

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a woman says you 're joking not another one

Alt: a woman says you 're joking not another one

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

As with anything that gains traction, I think it's always worth to watch what sins an in-vogue phrase like "test and learn" is used to forgive

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Latest bloggo. Something about gut health and culture grillopress.github.io/2025/07/27/t...

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Transplanting culture

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

When you visualise a flow “just for your own clarity” about a thing lots of people say is obvious and the debates begin

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the grinch is a cartoon character with a very angry face and red eyes .

Alt: the grinch slowly grins evilly

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Regardless if you're gliding or stumbling into the weekend. Here's a thing I wrote: grillopress.github.io/2025/07/18/y...

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You're a user but not your user

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Someone on this train is editing a spreadsheet on their phone and it’s all text. Editing tiny cell with lots of words. Good luck pal

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

One of the biggest lies teams and projects tell themselves is that if a thing they’re building saves time, that time saved will be used to focus on providing more quality It is sadly not often the case. And best to be honest about that

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Got about 12ft of this beautiful clematis all across my fence 😍

White clematis flower sprawled across a black fence. Hundreds of flowers

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

What we 100% need is every presentation software to have different shortcuts for moving objects back and forwards through layers

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Even the underpass knows what’s up

Underpass walkway with graffiti tag of “experiment” on it

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I wrote something about the difference between shift and removing costs when making products and services better grillopress.github.io/2025/03/01/b... Let me know what you think

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Between shifted and removed costs

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The ancestral spirits of frozen nomato sauce are with this Tupperware

A frozen plastic box with a frost covering that resembles an old lady or babuska

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My small experience with the national audit office … Years ago I worked on a project. A minister created a directive for nhs digital to build a specific service. Discovery said no need. We got told to push ahead. Alpha showed even less of a need and how expensive it would be to do.

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Not a fully formed thought. But there’s something about consulting/consultancy teams aping and replicating the culture of the companies they’re meant to be helping change

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Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If you wish to send a message to the friends and family of Vicky Teinaki, @vickytnz.bsky.social, about how much she meant to us and the community she was so much a part of, please add them here. I now have access to a compilation by a close friend of hers (not on BlueSky) and will add ours.

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The fact you can only respond with 1 emoji in teams to a message feels very corporate

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

You ever get to end of cooking a nice meal. Be it a quick one or not. And just cannot be bothered to eat it?

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Spending all afternoon putting up roofing sheets. And living with all my terrible decisions from several years ago. Give me software any day hah

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Random doodle after chatting to some product teams. When the change and iterations happen. Some teams it doesn't happen. Others after an MVP. Some upfront but never after going live. And some continuously

Image: When the iterations happen.

Before live and After live. 4 Sets of lines.

Line 1: No waves
Line 2: no waves before live, waves after
Line 3: waves before live, none after
Line 4: waves before and after live

Showing some models of how often change happens in teams

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Do I know anyone looking for a contract service design role? It’d start sometime in September. Inside ir35 (sorry not something I control) in the gov justice space. 4-5 days a week. Ping me if you or you know someone lovely

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Semi-regular “shit can we still do user research during an election” season

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Service design sure has a “big design up front” problem. You can’t understand everything. You can’t decide everything. You can’t iron out everything before you do anything. Stepping back is important. Stepping so far back you’ve left the world is not good enough and will never help your users

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Mixed day. Team I lead, we’ve passed our alpha assessment. And got a lovely compliment about how clear our vision, strategy and roadmap was. Person said it was “stunningly clear” But also rubbed chilli in my eye 😭

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Someone mentioned GDS today as in “wouldn’t think it’d be easy to justify/explain to them” etc what the programme team wanted to do. Threw me for a hot second. GDS-who? Everyone just marks their own homework now…

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Trying to write something else I ended up making a note about assumptions and hypotheses. Published the note: grillopress.github.io/2024/03/12/m...

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When and how to move from an assumption to a hypothesis

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Challenging few weeks. Productive for the team but also dealing with some team issues that ended with a person having to leave. But it would have been worse to allow poor performance, trust and collaboration to be left unchallenged

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

A high level visualisation I drew to help define the product vision was called lush today. I’ll take that 🥰

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

So maybe this is obvious but I’ve worked with so many designers and so many teams where they just aren’t able to work with teams and people who already have ideas how something could work. So I wrote this: grillopress.github.io/2024/01/24/i...

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It's okay to start with a stakeholder's solution. Just don't stop there

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Anyone put thought into or read anything about making stuff fun? I don’t mean like forced fun. But ensuring teams can enjoy themselves whilst working together? conditions to support teams enjoying challenges and developing trust and joy together. That sort of stuff?

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Want to improve a complex system? Start with the forms grillopress.github.io/2023/12/11/s...

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Start with the forms

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Andrew Duckworth @duckworthdesign.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Get beyond the "So what?" grillopress.github.io/2023/12/04/g...

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Get beyond the

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