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Welcome to the online home of the BBC XR Barriers Project. A project to capture and document the barriers present in eXtended Reality environments

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The hard truth is this; your Figma docs should be treated like a sketch on the back of a napkin. It should be somewhat accurate but it’s a tool that reflects the front-end, but: it ain’t your design system.

I want to talk about another kind of career ending mistake, one that affects more than just the unlucky few. Indeed, it's a mistake we're probably all making right now. And that's not planning the end of our careers.

The red bead experiment is deceptively simple because it provides a powerful message that is difficult for many to grasp. In summary, the misconception that workers can be meaningfully ranked is based on two faulty assumptions. The first assumption is that each worker can control his or her performance. Deming (1986, 315) estimated that 94 percent of the variation in any system is attributable to the system, not to the people working in the system. The second assumption is that any system variation will be equally distributed across workers. Deming (1986, 353) taught that there is no basis for this assumption in real life experiences.

In this post I aim to give you a framework for how to reason about [errors and warnings] systematically, with lessons learned from my recent years of work on programming language tooling for thousands of engineers at Google.