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There are a lot of components within DesignOps, and what an organization chooses to select — or to pass on — should depend on the current needs and most poignant painpoints of that organization.

Go for not too specific, not too general.

Consistency can be a great thing if it makes a design more usable. But if you don’t know what you want to a design to be consistent with — and why — then consistency risks confusing your users.

Interesting take that I think is building on a bit of a false premise.

We almost never actually teach people how to use the ordinary tools of business communication in more effective ways. So, I'm gathering some advice that I regularly share with people, in hopes that this helps you get your messages across more effectively.

Suh is staggeringly various in his dreams and visions – this show stretches through many galleries without once flagging in its unceasing invention – but also in his evolving media. He works in charcoal, unleashing images of burning buildings, seen through haze or smoke. He works in watercolour to catch memories by the tail. There are full-scale 1:1 replicas of fittings in his West 22nd Street flat sculpted in silk, nylon and even transparent gelatin – a diaphanous basin, a ghostly light switch, backlit with LED so that they glimmer like the platonic ideals of these ordinary yet vital objects.

Keen-eyed readers will have noticed that our website, app and print edition look different

an art style named after the Memphis Group that features flat areas of color and geometric elements. Widely associated with Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it has been criticized for its use in sanitising corporate communication, as well as being seen as visually offensive, insincere, pandering and over-saturated, though some illustrators have defended the style, pointing at what they claim to be its art-historical legitimacy.

Has some great comments around “talk to people” and “don’t impose”.

Times I’ve seen executive buy-in go smoothest are when a person in a position of power cares about design and says, “Our app looks like shit.” Now it’s a hair on fire problem.

This is great.

Blair recommends five things firms need to be effective at qualifying new business opportunities in order to prevent the over-allocation of resources against early-stage buyers.

Blair offers some ways to help prevent over-excited new business people and principals from giving away the shop and appearing unprofessional.

What weeknotes are, how weeknotes work, and how to start writing weeknotes of your own

Companies are reacting by “doing AI”without prioritizing the experience of the people on the receiving end–Design is more important than ever. To respond, we must get smart, fast. This starts with understanding the emerging patterns of interaction, affordances, and heuristics in an AI world.

Today, we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place against the British Library last October. Our hope is that doing this will help other organisations to plan and protect themselves against attacks of this kind.

Build exceptional products with Fable's digital accessibility testing and custom accessibility training, powered by people with disabilities.

Supernova connects your design and engineering data in a single design system tool to accelerate and scale your product development.

It is this “two-speed liberalisation”, a term coined by Mark Pack, a Liberal Democrat bigwig, that helps explains Britain’s culture wars. It may seem as though the combatants are pulling in opposite directions. But it is better to think of a camel train in the desert: arguments break out when those at the front of the caravan pull ahead of the stragglers.

the beautifully simple storytelling platform for teams in marketing, communications, and media.

We think taking a new approach makes it possible to shift government from an organisation of programmes and projects, to one of missions and services. It offers even constrained administrations an opportunity to improve their chances of delivering outcomes, reducing risk, saving money, and rebuilding public trust. Brilliant.

Comments that are easy to grok and grep

A look at the importance of shared vocabulary for projects with some non-tech world examples and showing how digital teams can benefit from this.

Maybe they’re perfect reminders of how violently smashing bytes together on a thin, vulnerable plastic / magnet sandwich is still one of the most punk things you can do as a musician and artist.

Telling stories well requires striking a balance between the power of the story, and its grounding in everyday realities. When trying to achieve this balance, it’s possible for leaders to get it wrong, and make two very different mistakes.

You were born to deploy Kubernetes.

We are sharing these recommendations to advocate for a practical and pragmatic approach to delivering change that starts locally, builds skills across the four nations of the UK, and makes public service attractive for a generation that wants to build a better, more equitable society.

API-first Identity Management, Authentication and Authorization.

Youch. Time to move.

when no amount of exhortation on the part of senior management had been successful. I pointed out to him that the people who resist the change the hardest are the ones who cannot see what their job would be post change. As a result the change is perceived as an existential risk to their own job and they will go to great lengths to sabotage the change because of that.