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Nick Daniels

@nickdaniels.bsky.social
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Content designer at the University of Edinburgh

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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The content team at the University of Bath just published a good piece on this: blogs.bath.ac.uk/digital-cont...
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Why AI doesn’t need Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | Digital Content and Development
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 17/03/2026
Brilliant analysis of what went wrong with the expensive redesign of Australia's version of the met office app. leisareichelt.substack.com/p/what-went-...
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What went wrong with the BoM Redesign?
A Post-Mortem on Judgement, Usability, and Redesign at Scale
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Had to read this headline about three times before it made sense
Screenshot of BBC News headline reading Red Bull can DNA helps jail bungling pub burglar
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Interesting take on user needs phrased in the "As a... I need to... so that..." format). Led me to the original post from Will Myddelton www.myddelton.co.uk/blog/researc...
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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
THIS: "this all means that for any consequential task that you want to accomplish with genAI, you need an expert human in the loop. The human must be capable of independently doing the job that the genAI system is being asked to accomplish."
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The Futzing Fraction
At least some of your time with genAI will be spent just kind of… futzing with it.
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I'm a bit of a sucker for some writing advice. Here's Adam Mastroianni with 28 slightly rude notes on writing: www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightl...
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28 slightly rude notes on writing
OR: catapulting myself into a pit of tarantulas
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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · 19/03/2025
ChatGPT lies to me regularly. The advice is to do your own research and not use AI as a search engine. With most content now being AI generated, is there a point where we’ll draw the same conclusions, because the content will always be written by the same entities anyway? www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Related post 2 - Kate Redfern and Philippe Fara talk about how they've been using OOUX for digital experience work at Renfrewshire Council www.ooux.com/resources/ep...
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062 - Proof that OOUX Works with Kate Redfern and Philippe Fara
In this episode of the podcast, Sophia, Kate, and Philippe discuss using the ORCA process to raise user competency scores for the Renfrewshire Council website, how OOUX makes maintaining digital conte...
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Related post 1 - Dana Rock on helping the University of Sussex work towards more structured content blogs.sussex.ac.uk/digital-and-...
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The journey to smarter content | Digital and Creative Media
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I've been enjoying this mini blog series on object-oriented user experience (OOUX). This can feel like quite a dense topic, but I always find these things become clearer when you hear about them applied to a specific context (in this case, the Scottish Government)
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Dean Vipond @deanvipond.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Love this article on content-first design. Clear and practical. Useful to. Interaction designers and content designers alike. www.dittowords.com/blog/how-to-...
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Ditto Blog — How to design content-first in a product-driven world
When designing a page, many designers start drawing out the layout of pages using placeholder copy, like lorem ipsum, to signal what content might go there. But this can often mean you’re not really c...
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Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Jack's laws of content (1 of X): Left unchecked organisations will produce more content than they can maintain
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Love this - really useful to have concrete examples throughout the guide. www.bbc.co.uk/gel/how-to-w...
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How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles
How to write inclusive and accessible text descriptions for all types of images.
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
SharePoint sites: 3 features to avoid blogs.ed.ac.uk/nickdaniels/...
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SharePoint sites: 3 features to avoid – Nick Daniels // blog
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Adam Silver @adamsilverhq.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What does good design look like? - It’s not animation. - It’s not gradients. - It’s not fancy. So what is it? If you have 2 mins spare, here’s what good (even delightful) design looks like: www.tella.tv/video/02-go...
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02 - Good design explained
Video recording for work
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I've started collecting advice on whether you should use FAQs or not blogs.ed.ac.uk/nickdaniels/...
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
New edition of Just enough Internet just landed in inboxes. This one on how non-technical people actually appear to be using generative AI at work. buttondown.com/justenoughin...
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FOMO is not a strategy
End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Finding this useful - "A growing directory of free articles, tools and resources to help you write clear, accessible content." www.plainenglish.club/bookmarks/
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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
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Nick Daniels @nickdaniels.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Interesting to see this from W3C: Sustainable Web Interest Group is Formed www.w3.org/blog/2024/su...
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Richard Morton @accessibleweb.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Digital accessibility isn't just about code details or assistive technology. Much of it is about the best ways of publishing content, that makes it readable and usable by as many people as possible accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/05/u... #a11y #accessibility
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Unlocking Accessibility: Content designers share their experience and advice
We asked content designers from various government departments how they initially learned about accessibility and what they wished others would consider when creating accessible content.
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Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
📑 Design to Read: Guidelines for people who do not read easily - co-authored by Ginny Redish, Kathryn Summers & @cjforms.bsky.social ⤵ www.effortmark.co.uk/design-to-re...
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Design to read: guidelines for people who do not read easily - Effortmark
How to design content for people who struggle to read, perhaps because of disability, low literacy, or stress. Co-authors Ginny Redish and Kathryn Summers
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