Emma Wailes (Hildreth)
@doodle_em
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Telling stories to make a difference through UX, picture books and design. UX Designer and Head of Design at Hippo Digital.
UK
Joined May 2010
It's time to get serious about design https://t.co/OgLSsJLPg9 Love this blog post by the fantastic @CathyDutton
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Design in government has lost its way. We’ve invested in discovery, compliance, and delivery, but not in creativity.
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Always remember, it's easier to hate than to be nice. Find the nice one's because they are the harder workers.
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To brighten up budget day, I am giving a set of these Fabulous Mr Benn badges away. To be in the bowler hat, all you have to do is retweet this tweet. I'll choose a winner this time next week. Good Luck!!
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How do we motivate people for change? Extrinsic motivators ("prods") work in some contexts but they often undermine ("crowd out") intrinsic motivation for doing things & they can backfire disastrously. That's because human behaviour is influenced by underlying norms, cultural
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Learn About the 10 Principles for Good Design, to Boost Your UX / UI Designs, by Dieter Rams! 🔥🔖 1. Good design is innovative Possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Tech development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. But
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This is so sad - this veteran and many more were prepared to give his life for this country and luckily didn’t but must have so many traumatic memories and @RishiSunak couldn’t give him his time. His own campaign was obviously more important. #shamefulsunak
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The end user doesn’t care about estimations; they care about value. In today's Tactical Tip Tuesday #podcast, Amogh Joshi with @AdvanceAgility shares a short tip for balancing the time you spend estimating the work with the time you spend doing it.
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Amogh Joshi with Advance Agility shares his tips to understand the larger purpose behind Agile estimation and how to balance its elements.
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7 years ago we let Jess go to a concert. A phone call telling us she was spooked but safe, us thinking initially at that time an electrical fault with the speakers could have been completely different had we gone to pick her up. #slidingdoors #manchester
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A Lady asked an old street vendor: "How much do you sell your eggs for?" The old man replied "0.50p an egg, madam.” The Lady responde, “I'll take 6 eggs for £2.00 or I'm leaving.” The old salesman replied, “Buy them at the price you want, Madam. This is a good start for me
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Daniel Kahneman obituary, Nobel prizewinning psychologist who wrote the book Thinking, Fast and Slow - The Times and The Sunday Times
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Human beings think all day long but Daniel Kahneman arguably did more than anyone to make us stop and think about thinking. He demonstrated through decades of experimentation that people are more...
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I’ve just had my bike stolen from outside a coffee shop in Monton in Manchester. Absolutely zero chance of seen it again, but I thought I would post on here just in case somebody sees something
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Good design takes time. Preferably large blocks of time. Large blocks of time are increasingly rare these days. Especially when your calendar is fragmented by countless meetings. And your output is measured in sprints, points and tasks.
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The theme of 2024 for me is channeling Steve Jobs' relentless pursuit of QUALITY. QUALITY customer success. QUALITY content. QUALITY copy. QUALITY everything. “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” - Steve Jobs
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Bit of an interesting read this morning and something probably in need of reviewing given 80% of my week feels like it’s all about meetings. #nyresolutions
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Research shows that leaders consistently rate their own meetings very favorably—and much more positively than attendees do. When managers assume that their meetings are going well, they are less apt...
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