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Lizzie Bruce

@lizziecake.bsky.social
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Content strategy and management. Fascinated by good design. Offline path fan. UX books and courses author. #UCDFreelancersDirectory creator. Wrote Readability Guidelines. Books, films, hikes, objects. ©️ Photo: Isokon Building by me. cakeconsultancy.com 🍰

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 5h
my only ongoing exposure to AI is in search engine summaries and it continues to give misleading and factually incorrect summaries of academic papers and other articles, direct me to references that contradict it or don’t exist etc… so what exactly am I missing out on?
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.
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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 02/10/2026
change your passwords and make sure 2FA is enabled on all accounts. that will be £1000 please.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/10/2026
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. . . .Would I read an A.I. book?” the author Jeff VanderMeer asks. “All I can say is no.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement
At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still true. Time to pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's new book, DEEP UNLEARNING: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
simonandschuster.com
Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, we're still at just over 20 months of Trump's second term, and the www.trumpactiontracker.info has reached over 4,000 documented actions :-/
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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fighting Putin by putting on my airco Take that calvinists
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Dan @dandoescontent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested to hear what kinda things others like to ask. Also, @lizziecake.bsky.social has great article on this topic: medium.com/design-bootc...
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Content designer interview questions — plus what to ask your interviewers
Here I share some interview topics and questions you might encounter, plus what you could ask the interviewers, a simple CV structure and…
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[whispers] Here’s the context if you didn’t know [whispers quieter] I didn’t 💥🫟
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems
The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual properties with potentially de...
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My niece had a uni year start email from the course co-ordinator. Very rambling. Includes multi-clause sentences and words like 'upon'. We put it through Hemingway app and 10 out of 29 sentences were deemed very hard to read. This is not the way to do student comms. #readability #content #comms
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New business idea... a retreat type holiday stay in the UK countryside, with a large balcony on every room... where you can bring your CAT! The balcony is enclosed and has climbing frames plus an earth box. Also, pots of cat grass. There might be a small unenclosed bit for you too. 🐈 🕶️ 🐈 📚 🐈 🧘🏻‍♀️
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This... ⬇️
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Dan @dandoescontent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Q: If I picked one of your organisation's senior management at random and asked them what a Content Designer does, would they be able to tell me? (I want to understand how well understood the discipline is throughout the org, particularly at higher levels.)
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Dan @dandoescontent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Q: On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the level of content/user-centred design maturity within your org? Why did you give this score? (Most orgs will score themselves somewhere between 4 to 7. They want to give some impression of maturity but don't want to over promise...
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Dan @dandoescontent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Questions I like to ask during content design job interviews, a thread...
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'What makes a good, accessible, easy to read font?' Discover the right fonts for website accessibility, and learn some pointers for creating a good, legible font. Article by me, 2021, originally published on the GatherContent blog. #accessibility #content #design #fonts #UCD
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What makes a good, accessible, easy to read font?
Explore what makes a font accessible and easy to read. Includes examples of good fonts to improve readability and user experience.
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mikebroomhead.bsky.social @mikebroomhead.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Transformation needs more than technology" is my main take away from 2 intensive days. I didn't hear a process or op model transformation -- only "digital transformation". Perhaps "digital" is too sacred, a unicorn? #ProductivityParadox #UserCentredDesign #DigitalTransformation #Rewired25
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This weeks baking… plum, blackberry and raspberry crumble! #ItsAutumn
A dark fruit crumble in a pink ceramic dish with yellow lemon slice style handles, plus top side plates with crumble portions and copper looking spoons.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From me of 10 years ago! Still very applicable... 🍁🕯️🏠🪺
ecohomedecor.wordpress.com
Introducing Hygge to your home
A steaming hot chocolate, a crackling fireside, cosy catch ups, walking on a frosty common bundled up in hats, scarfs and mittens  – these are all “hygge”. Hygge is a Danish word to des…
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Started and finished this while on holiday. "It's not horror" @anna-orridge.bsky.social warned me, as if all I read is monsters & robots 👀 OK, I do read a lot of that, but this speculative eco fiction ticked all the right boxes. Set in a near future we don't want but are heading for anyway...
gold.ac.uk
Parch Marks
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
5 days left! Read some feedback on my courses: “I've applied the lesson Content usability basics to writing stuff as simple and everyday as blog posts, tech docs, etc and it makes a world of difference to the quality of the final piece. Subtle but important. Strong recommend from me!” 🍰 💻 🗒️
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What happened to all the items in your order being sent together in one parcel? I’d prefer to wait an extra day or two and get everything at once than have multiple dispatches, with their associated emails, tracking, being home etc. #DeliveryGrumbles 📦
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/09/2026
‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours
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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours
Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed Thousands of farmers have been left empty-handed with the government’s 2026 nature funding spent in just six hours. The £233m sustainable farming incentive (SFI) scheme opened for applications from farmers at 10am on Tuesday. Continue reading...
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's a little book I wrote... you might want to follow it, note by note. You won't worry; you'll be happy (when your intranet's task-based and user-centred). 😀 Paraphrased song credit: 'Don't Worry Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin #UserTasks #UCD #Intranets #ContentDesign
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Task-based intranet content: a step by step guide to user-centred design by Lizzie Bruce | Blurb Books UK
Find Task-based intranet content: a step by step guide to user-centred design by Lizzie Bruce at Blurb Books. “Really good stuff from someone who knows her intra...
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NAZA documentary on Gaza and killing of Palestinian civilians receives standing ovation at Venice Film Festival.
theguardian.com
From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary
As Gaza documentary wins cinematic acclaim, its directors face vitriol in Israel amid a febrile election campaign
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They're playing my era Madonna on R2 this morning. Pleasing.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ooooh nice long train journey! Call of the open tracks... 🛤️
Map showing train connections from Lagos in southern Portugal to Kemijärvi in northern Finland. Annotated with 4000km straight line distance. Title and subcopy: EU's longest train trip. The longest-distance train journey across the EU was completed in 125 hours and 31 minutes.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No decluttering today but painted hallway and entryway 🪜🪣 #FirebreakWeek #Freelancing #ContractCompleted
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My mission: to get these items recycled this week... Printer, 2 laptops – Revive IT Recycling will pick up 🤞 Hoover parts – Space Waye, Feltham ♻️ Coffee pods – Podback via Hounslow ASDA ☕ Kettle – weekly recycling (in labelled bag) 🎉 I don't drive, so this'll involve a Big Recycling Day Out!
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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.fornland.com "Fornland brings together over 1.8 million heritage records from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Germany in one map"
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Fornland — Explore Northern European Heritage
Interactive map of 1.8 million heritage records across Northern and Central Europe — ancient monuments, runestones, folklore, battlefields, shipwrecks, museums and megaliths.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a little work-in-a-team-with-humans-in-real-life side gig, I'm on my second season assisting visitors at a historic building down the road from me. I came up with an idea for a new tour or talk. English Heritage have replied "Fantastic idea, very much in support of this!" So chuffed! 😊
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 11/09/2026
#AntiWork - getting the ideology of Work out of our private lives, out of our homes, out of our schools. Work is good but it shouldn’t define our lives this much.
ANTIWORK
Demanding the retreat of the ideology of Work from all aspects of private life, liberty and learning.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/voter-id…
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Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds
Young people, low-income and trans voters were among the groups hardest hit by the policy imposed by the last Conservative Government, academics found
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited about a new book I'm writing on how to do UCD well, working title: The Digital Design Umbrella. Have got some chapter titles together, not yet finalised the order of them. Part 1: Recipe for good UCD Chapter 1: Ingredients Chapter 2: Processes that work, and why
Book cover design for The Digital Design Umbrella: How to do user-centred design that holds up by Lizzie Bruce. Print on a duck egg blue background, with a graphic of an umbrella labelled with user-centred design roles, representing that a multi-disciplinary team is needed as well as problem space research, senior management support and user involvement. Text at bottom says Due to be published by Cake Consultancy Ltd, 2027.
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Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My view is $60 rye bread is not going to be 20x better than a loaf I could make myself, way more than double the cost of ingredients, and sell for £3. And also loss-leader bread full of sugar and no nutritional value is an equally bad proposition. Uh, everyone deserves good bread is that ok?
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyone at end of fixed Halifax deal & switching? Set up new months ago but got letter saying it'll revert to variable 7.24%. My online account had no info on upcoming switch. I panicked. Later saw SMS saying "ignore any letters abt reverting to our standard variable rate". Very bad service design.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've had bad sleep recently as my cat has been very unwell. Must've gone for a nap earlier. I've woken up at 7 on the analogue clock... and started my day as if it were morning! Logging on having "breakfast" I saw my laptop said 19:33 Thursday. Talk about a power nap, thought it was 12 hours' worth!
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Juliette Leroux @jujusg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am opposed to gen AI as it's pushed by billionaires tech bros because it is allienating and de-skilling, AND because the needed data centers would annihilate all the (insufficient) efforts made to slow down the climate crisis which will, indeed, kill us all.
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Juliette Leroux @jujusg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am truly puzzled by the sudden panic about this "AI might kill us all" study. Have you missed the actual existential crisis unfolding? Backed by hundreds of scientists? Accelerating to a point those scientists had not foreseen? Is getting afraid of ghosts a collective coping mechanism?
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A few years ago I put together a UX manual... for interior design! Amazingly, people are still buying it – thank you 😊 I'm thinking of giving it a fancy re-launch, but meanwhile to remind everyone it's out there, the PDF version is reduced by 10%. 🏡 📕 #Books #SelfPublishing #UX #Interiors #NewHome
blurb.co.uk
What do we do in this room? by Lizzie Bruce | Blurb Books UK
Find What do we do in this room? by Lizzie Bruce at Blurb Books. Learn how to improve the day-to-day experience of your home by optimising its interior spaces. ...
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yay! Time to do the someone bought both my pathway courses dance!
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Happy Birthday Cat Enjoys Yummy Cake
Alt: Cat licking cream from a cake with big eyes and graphic dots. Captions pop up saying Cake Yummy Cake OM Nom Nom Nom.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"One of the rights that the powerful often assume," wrote Rebecca Solnit, "is the power to dictate reality." I've only just come across this quote – it's amazing! Applies on so many levels – workplace, social, familial. I guess it's a little similar to asking 'who benefits from this messaging?'.
foyles.co.uk
Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit | Foyles
Buy Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit from Foyles today! Click and Collect from your local Foyles.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yesterday someone asked me a really great question about my pathways courses: “Does the content overlap or would it be helpful to do both?" I said it's helpful to do both. They cover different areas, with #UserCentredDesign as the umbrella and #ContentDesign as, one could say, a single spoke. ☂️💻
cakeconsultancy.com
“Which CAKE pathway course should I take?”, CAKE
I offer comprehensive, introductory pathway courses into user-centred design and content design. Yesterday someone asked me a great question about them: “What is the main difference between t…
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Back to school! 50% off all my online courses until 30 September 2026 with the code: SEPT50 This applies to: • Content design pathway • User-centred design pathway • Content accessibility short course • Writing for web short course 🎂 🍰 #Design #Content #UCD #Digital #ContentDesign #WritingForWeb
cakeconsultancy.com
Browse our courses, CAKE
Explore user-centred design and content design online training courses from Cake.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“…this device is not at a familiar location.” 👀 It was at home. I do travel about a bit, but home is pretty familiar.
Screenshot says: Security Delay Required to Reset
Password. A security delay is required because
Stolen Device
Protection is turned on and this device is not at a familiar location. The security delay will last for 1 hour.
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Matcha latte as the new avocado toast? Apparently #doomspending is a thing now.
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Rainer Höhnel @hoehnelr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kamerabrillen können unbemerkt Videos aufnehmen. So werden private, peinliche oder verletzliche Momente plötzlich zu Content auf Social-Media-Plattformen. Heimliches Filmen darf nicht alltäglich werden! Lass uns das gemeinsam verhindern. Unterzeichne die Petition: campact.org/spannerbrillen
campact.org
Du bist kein Content: Spanner-Brillen verbieten!
Stell dir vor: Jemand filmt dich – und du merkst nichts. Kamerabrillen bedrohen unsere Privatsphäre. Fordere klare Grenzen! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️
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Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ContentDesign and user-centred design good practices shouldn't go to die on your intranet. In fact it's actually a really good place to start trying a #UCD approach and content design techniques! My book helps you do exactly that. And so many teams have used it. #Intranets #Content #Digital
blurb.co.uk
Task-based intranet content: a step by step guide to user-centred design by Lizzie Bruce | Blurb Books UK
Find Task-based intranet content: a step by step guide to user-centred design by Lizzie Bruce at Blurb Books. “Really good stuff from someone who knows her intra...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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