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Tim Paul

@timpaul.co.uk
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Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.
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Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve been thinking a lot about how easy it is for teams to get caught up in following a methodology. I did some work recently to try to communicate the core messages behind the agile-user centred methodology. And now I have written something about it. ignaciaorellana.com/posts/beyond...
Imagine with 10 principles for the ways we work. More details in the link in this post.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 23/08/2026
You know when people argue that we shouldn't give generative AI such a hard time, because other industries are worse for the environment? Here's a short post I wrote about that www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/tu-quo...
Image of the frontispiece from the Jacobean play, The City Gallant. The clown, Bubbles, is saying the phrase "Tu quoque To you sir". 'Tu quoque' is latin for 'You too' and has become synonymous with the kind of rhetorical argument that tries to distract from an opponent's point by claiming they are being hypocritical.
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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Whoever those lucky civil servants are who get the secondments into mayoral authorities, I hope they have the subtle balance of enough self-confidence to drive the roles forward, tempered with enough humility to recognise the skills and expertise that already exist locally. No superheroes, please.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/08/2026
If we don’t act, the climate crisis could cost London up to £36bn a year by the 2050s. After another summer of record-breaking heat, now is the time to adapt homes, neighbourhoods and infrastructure to be ready for a hotter future.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 06/08/2026
Land Acknowledgments, but make them Data Acknowledgments that AI providers are required to display and recite before any session may begin.
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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Blogged about why the PM's plans to scrap Digital ID is the wrong right decision medium.com/writing-by-i...
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 18/07/2026
Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious. loosemore.com/2026/07/18/d...
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Deckchair shuffling is for the unserious
The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (D…
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Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · 16/07/2026
The GOVUK design system team have today added the interruption page pattern and component: design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/int... - based on previous work by teams across government. 🎉 This is a great example of where it is sometimes helpful to add some friction into a digital journey.
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Interruption pages
Pause the user journey to give them important information
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Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app
A ceefax page in black with yellow and white font. It says One man, one bin, one chance to save clacton.
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 01/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 We're hiring User Researchers at GDS's Incubator for AI - come join our growing UCD team 😀 More details and links in 🧵
The Incubator for AI is hiring User Researchers. Come and help us builda better Britain.
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 17/06/2026
There's some genuinely excellent use of LLMs in all this. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-gemi...
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Here's how the government is using AI to speed up the planning system
These two new systems could be genuinely revolutionary
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Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Senior Service Designer Closes 1 July www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Coco @cocochan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK saves 'millions' of pounds by ditching Palantir for refugee system
The government said its in-house IT system was
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 17/03/2026
Here's a blog post about a thing I made recently 😊 www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/doom-loops/ And here's the thing: doomloop.cc
An image showing the Doom Loop logo: 4 turquoise rings arranged in a square formation. Behind the rings is an abstract assemblage of 3D blocks
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Kyle Shevlin (he/him) @kyleshevl.in · 03/03/2026
*Means of production dramatically improves* Me: Sweet. I make same stuff in less time now. Them: No, no, no! You must make more stuff in same time. Never same stuff in less time, silly peasant.
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Martin Wright @mynameismartin.co.uk · 15/02/2026
Report from the field, trying to figure out if I'm about to be automated out of a job. www.mynameismartin.co.uk/blog/how-im-...
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How I’m dealing with the pressure to adopt AI as a designer — mynameismartin
I’ve spent the last month trying to catch up with AI in design, and I have news. Things haven't settled, the ground is still moving, and sitting with uncertainty might be the best position right now
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Harry Metcalfe @harrym.com · 14/02/2026
A certain campaign website launched last week was a bit security-broken, in a way that has wider lessons for AI-coded stuff. Writing 👇 blog.harrym.com/p/hold-the-s...
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Hold the security: a vibe-coding story
Vibe-coded doesn't mean vibe-secure, so we should try and stop the internet being full of even more broken things
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 05/01/2026
Happy new year! Here's a thing about some less serious AI experiments I did over the Xmas break: www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/xmas-2...
A vector image of a landscape with a volcano
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 30/12/2025
Xmas break silliness - I thought I'd combine multiple NY resolutions and learn Spanish whilst running and listening to home made verb-conjugation-techno (built with 11 Labs and Strudel) soundcloud.com/timpaul-1/se...
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Ser (proof of concept)
Quick sketch of an idea to combine text-to-voice with Strudel live coding to make running music that can also help me learn Spanish!
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Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com · 27/12/2025
My 2025 #yearnote as—sorry!—a listicle. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/2025/
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10 lessons from 2025
Technology & identity in GDS and the NHS
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Anna Goss @annagoss.co · 22/10/2025
wrote down some stuff about closing FF Studio, what I was proud of and what I'd do differently if I did it again notes.annagoss.co/closing-ff/
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Designing a design studio
Anna Goss, service designer
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Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com · 18/10/2025
Clichés take hold in political language, a vicious cycle that runs through campaign speeches, through citizens’ expectations, and down into the software we build or procure by cliché, whose accordingly poor performance invites further calls for simplification. mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/design-...
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Design by cliché
We reject cliché. We require true names
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 06/10/2025
Had a very enjoyable top deck, front seat bus ride to work, chatting on Signal to @duncanjbrown.com about this absolute banger of a talk he gave
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 03/09/2025
I worked with Amy and she is the best - HIRE HER!
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 27/08/2025
🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
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A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com
A design language, if you can keep it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 03/07/2025
Back at #CampDigital and so far it’s as inspiring and interesting as ever 😃
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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The flipping legend @herahussain.bsky.social kicks off #campDigital with her 3 month old in a pram by her side 🌟💪🏽
Hera on stage with a pram, the slide says "The transformative power of participatory and trauma-informed design" and the wall says "Camp digital"
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 20/05/2025
Two great courses here from the brilliant @claragt.bsky.social
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 20/05/2025
This is very cool - an AI-powered prototyping tool that’s simple enough to run locally!
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Kuba Bartwicki @kubabartwicki.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
PS, if you are an amazing, experienced app designer or know someone who is – drop me a message please – we might need a bit of help soon 👋
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 02/05/2025
Last year I wrote about a thing I made that uses AI to turn PDF forms into nice, accessible GOV.UK-styled versions. Here's an update where I consider what it would be like to use it on ALL the PDF forms on GOV.UK
A side-by-side comparison of a PDF deed poll form, and a page of the web version created by AI
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
grim, beautiful essay that puts it all together in a way that resonates, at least for me - check it out!
screenshot from the article in the quoted post: "An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else. With stunning speed, the big tech megalomaniacs have quietly rolled back their net-zero pledges and lined up by Trump’s side, hellbent on sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity at the altar of a vampiric, virtual realm. This is the last great heist, and they are getting ready to ride out the storms they themselves are summoning – and they will try to defame and destroy anyone who gets in their way."screenshot from the article in the quoted post: "To have a hope of combating the end times fascists, with their ever-constricting and asphyxiating concentric circles of “ordered love”, we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all. Faithful to here. Or, to quote Anohni again, this time referring to the goddess in which she now places her faith: “Have you stopped to consider that this might have been her best idea?”"
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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for Money talks: Estimating the cost and value of service design 1 day (5 hour) course. Early bird tickets are available now for £275.00 This was a popular session at SDinGov 2024, and @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social and I have run for the OU and MoJ www.tickettailor.com/events/ignac...
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Buy tickets – Money talks: Estimating the cost and value of service design – Zoom
Where: Online, on Zoom This workshop will show you how to use service design tools to spot opportunities to improve services; e...
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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 23/03/2025
In two weeks I'm running Brighton Marathon for Pancreatic Cancer UK. My mum got diagnosed 5 years ago just as first lockdown was happening. There's real progress being made on testing and mRNA. I've donated the first £200, any donations help: 2025brightonmarathonweekend.enthuse.com/pf/richard-p...
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Ben #ActNow 🔥🌳🌊 @benaldo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Blog post from @timpaul.co.uk and Helena Trippe at GDS, exploring what the ideas in the 'Blueprint for modern digital government' might look and behave like "when they inevitably bump up against the rough edges of the real world"... gds.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/07/v...
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Visualising modern digital government
Learn more about the process of creating the blueprint for a modern digital government including the collaboration involved, open working, and user-centered design.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 02/03/2025
18F was dissolved because it saved money. We pushed back against contractors who tried to screw American taxpayers. We showed how cheap and good government software can be. Musk hates that. writing by Dan Tangherlini via @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 02/03/2025
For anyone trying the new Flashes app I’m over there as @timpaulphotos.bsky.social
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The "Getting started" guide for the NHS prototype kit is one of the finest getting started guides I have ever clicked through, a masterpiece of clarity prototype-kit.service-manual.nhs.uk
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NHS prototype kit
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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 26/02/2025
I continue to be so, so, so grateful for all of my int’l #GovDesign colleagues working in the open. I am delighted to have just read an 18F blog post about a task we will have in the next few weeks and months. #WorkingInTheOpen means people saving time, avoiding mistakes, and leapfrogging a bit.
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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 07/02/2025
I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.
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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 06/02/2025
📼 Why Is Everything Binary? My latest on briefs.video. briefs.video/videos/why-i...
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Why is everything binary?
A video from Webbed Briefs
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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