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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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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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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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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

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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 · 06/12/2025

Genreganger!

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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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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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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 06/10/2024

It's a two-post kind of a day! Here's my summing-up of all the responses to @jenitennison.com's ask for input into a new vision for digital government www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/what-d...

What does the internet want from a new Digital Centre for the UK Government?

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 06/10/2024

Way back in March I ran a workshop for designers to discuss the potential impact of AI on our roles, and on the people who run and use the services we design. I finally, FINALLY wrote it up here: www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/talkin...

The online poster for the 'Let's Talk About Design and AI' workshop I ran

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 01/10/2024

Anakin: We used automation to make civil servants more efficient. Padme: Freeing them up to do more valuable work right?

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 05/09/2024

It’s Design System Day today! It’s the 2nd time the GOV.UK Design System team has run this event in person, and it’s twice as big this year. I’m awestruck at how a product team can turn itself to running a professional conference once a year. #DSDay2024

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 04/09/2024

Forgot to mention - last week the GOV.‌UK Design System team published a new pattern and component for service navigation! design-system.service.gov.uk/components/s...

The new service navigation component - mobile view

The new service navigation component - desktop view

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 13/05/2024

For anyone interested, I've just written up my 'AI form extractor' experiment from a few weeks ago as a blog post www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/using-ai-to-generate-web-forms-from-pdfs

Image of the form extractor interface. It shows the original PDF form on the left, and the extracted web form on the right

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 19/04/2024

Posting this again as it got a fair bit of interest last time. 😜 It’s an AI + Forms experiment I made. 🤖 You give it an image of a document form and it generates a web version.

An image of the form extractor. The document form is on the left, the web version is on the right.

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 27/03/2024

The awesome GOV.‌UK Design System team published a new password input component yesterday! It's got a built-in show/hide toggle to make it easier for folk to use design-system.service.gov.uk/components/p...

A password field with a show/hide toggle

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Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk · 11/03/2024

I'll be running an online session called 'Let's Talk About Design and AI' at #ServicesWeek this year

'Let's Talk About Design and AI' - 19 March, 3-4:30pm, Online.

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