iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Just getting to Central St Martins and realised I’d forgotten to put my contacts in… not like I need to see anything today 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Rewatching Blade Runner. How did I completely forget it takes place in 2019 😳

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My teenager just hissed at me when I said I sometimes use AI for things. Apparently this is a perfectly predictable response to AI within Gen Alpha

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In tailoring Claude to be non-flattering and genuinely challenge my thinking, I have now created a monster that will argue with my every point. I'm not sure this was an entirely great idea

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

As long as the wealth distribution mechanisms remain the same, stupid work will always exist.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Isn’t it just a sign of the times that when I read a headline about the US president saying the Iranian leader is dead, I do not know whether to believe it or not.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Oh hello there! Guess who’s back? felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

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Clippy Desktop Assistant

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Argh, help! My iPhone updated overnight and now everything looks weird. Is there a way to turn off this “glass” monstrosity? (Or is this a sign to stop using my phone?!)

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

It just occurred to me that I currently have keys to four different homes. It also occurred to me that maybe I should start charging for cat sitting.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Just found out “urgent referrals” in the NHS mean you have to be seen within 28 days. I have a very different definition of “urgent”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union? Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39. One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."

Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 04/12/2025

Love Jenga for workshops Cheap and flexible for 3d maps and activities

Showing Jenga as same width as post it notes and moo.com stickers

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Granola though 👌🏻👌🏻

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Halifax completely missing the point of these “Wrapped” summaries and reminding their users they’re one of millions and the bank knows very little about them. Yeah… don’t do this.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It’s nearly 10pm. Of course this is when my daughter tells me she sat in some gum in the school trousers she needs to wear again tomorrow.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Given that AI training data continues to be biased in most cases, do we think it is so popular amongst the demographic in charge because it reinforces their narrative of “the world as it should be”, rather than the more complex and nuanced views that have been emerging?

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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 25/11/2025

Resharing this picture of @loudowne.bsky.social on stage at the SDN #serviceDesign Conference 2023 in Berlin. I just shared it with a colleague when discussing what design is and what not. So much of my work includes activities listed like: A conversation An email Costing up delivery Getting money

A person with light skin and blonde hair, wearing a t-shirt standing, on a stage with a massive pink slide projected behind them saying: “Service design is …“ in bold letters.

In 3 columns, it lists activities:
A conversation
An email
A new fund
A coffee with someone
A diagram
A new structure
Changing the name of something
Renaming a business process
Changing an API
Stopping things from happening
Starting new things
A new stream of revenue
Fixing a point of failure
Giving permission for something
Organising pay rises
Clearer outcomes
Defining the edges of a service
Costing up delivery
Applying for funding
Hiring people
Spending 6 months getting money
Making friends
Making enemies
Building a community
Rage-quitting Taking breaks
Pillow plumping
Sticker designing
Powerpoint wrangling
Tear mopping
Morale building

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Between all the AI slop, sponsored posts and the terribly implemented cookie consent banners and pop ups and ad banners when you do finally find a website that may contain the answer to what you were searching for - I can definitely see why you’d use AI.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

If we accept that trust is a currency of life and energy is a universal currency, is there an exchange rate between the two? And what is it? You do need energy to create trust and (sometimes) trust to create energy. #randomthoughts #wishiwasaphysicist

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Gentle reminder: if you are a woman in a position of power but only amplify the male voices in your environment then you are not the feminist you think you are.

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Wish there was a way to put the US in a time out for a while so they can think about how they’re behaving and come back when they’re ready to join the group

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Weather dipped below zero: my body engaged hibernation mode. If you see me before spring, feed me cake and give me space/ blanket :)

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Merje Shaw @merje.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

The other day, someone in a meeting implied that it was impossible for an app to be both elegant and AAA compatible and it’s been gnawing at me ever since. So, #accessibility and #design folks - can you help me show them this is incorrect? Who’s nailing both accessibility and app (visual) design?

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