Amanda Wowk
@amandawowk.bsky.social
Content designer. I'm pretty boring. Views are my own, all that jazz.
New Running Man makes me want to learn to make zines honestly.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New Running Man makes me want to learn to make zines honestly.
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We’re looking for a venue partner who can help with physical space to support this open, community-driven, and free-to-attend event.
🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible)
👥 Size: 100-120 people
📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds
Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue
🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible)
👥 Size: 100-120 people
📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds
Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue
UK Health Camp the free ‘unconference’ on digital, design and data for health and care
Come and enjoy a full day having conversations about #health, #digital, #nhs, and more. Register at ukhealthcamp.com
ukhealthcamp.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We’re looking for a venue partner who can help with physical space to support this open, community-driven, and free-to-attend event.
🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible)
👥 Size: 100-120 people
📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds
Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue
🗓️ When: A Saturday in Spring 2026 (Flexible)
👥 Size: 100-120 people
📍 Where: Accessible UK location, ideally Leeds
Please get in touch! ukhealthcamp.com/venue
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Seriously though, this is an incredible conference, and you won't want to miss it.
Giving a lightning talk in 2023 was honestly one of the highlights of my life.
Go get your tickets ❤️
Seriously though, this is an incredible conference, and you won't want to miss it.
Giving a lightning talk in 2023 was honestly one of the highlights of my life.
Go get your tickets ❤️
🚨 Announcing All Day Hey! 2026. Celebrating ten years of the conference. The final one. Let's go!
A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Seriously though, this is an incredible conference, and you won't want to miss it.
Giving a lightning talk in 2023 was honestly one of the highlights of my life.
Go get your tickets ❤️
Seriously though, this is an incredible conference, and you won't want to miss it.
Giving a lightning talk in 2023 was honestly one of the highlights of my life.
Go get your tickets ❤️
Get yourself down (or up) to Leeds for one of the best conferences in the UK.
Already set an alarm in my phone so I don't miss getting a ticket!
Already set an alarm in my phone so I don't miss getting a ticket!
This week, we launch the 2026 conference, signalling ten years of All Day Hey! A lot has changed in ten years, and we have a lot to celebrate. We're not holding back on this one.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Get yourself down (or up) to Leeds for one of the best conferences in the UK.
Already set an alarm in my phone so I don't miss getting a ticket!
Already set an alarm in my phone so I don't miss getting a ticket!
I have a "sandwich theory of content design" floating around in my head for years but I've always been worried people would just think I'm a bit useless. But today, I muttered to myself, "this is a petrol station chicken caesar wrap" as I reviewed something. My own private little theory, really.
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I have a "sandwich theory of content design" floating around in my head for years but I've always been worried people would just think I'm a bit useless. But today, I muttered to myself, "this is a petrol station chicken caesar wrap" as I reviewed something. My own private little theory, really.
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
This takes less than 15 minutes and you'll get the nice warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you've helped contribute to research!
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November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This takes less than 15 minutes and you'll get the nice warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you've helped contribute to research!
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Yes, one of the areas I worry a lot about in the cyber risk space. In many cases the “checking rigorously” stage will end up taking almost as long as the previous approach but that’s not what management have been promised so there’ll be a *lot* of pressure to speed up those checks
My secondary concern about this stuff is that it makes me worry that the various ways generative AI can save time and improve efficiency are in practice quite dangerous, because 'this turns an hour long task to a five minute one you have to check rigorously' really dependents on 'check rigorously'.
Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yes, one of the areas I worry a lot about in the cyber risk space. In many cases the “checking rigorously” stage will end up taking almost as long as the previous approach but that’s not what management have been promised so there’ll be a *lot* of pressure to speed up those checks
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This is a great metaphor for all the UX "redesigns" motivated by itchy fingers rather than actual user needs.
Last year Betty Crocker shrank the size of their cake mixes. Decades of cake-mix-based recipes are now broken. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore
"It's just so upsetting."
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September 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a great metaphor for all the UX "redesigns" motivated by itchy fingers rather than actual user needs.
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this is going to result in more holocaust denial as people start denouncing actual evidence as faked by a.i.
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
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August 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
this is going to result in more holocaust denial as people start denouncing actual evidence as faked by a.i.
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Hey chatGPT can u write me an edict make it more than 300 words and make it fascist as fuck
August 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey chatGPT can u write me an edict make it more than 300 words and make it fascist as fuck
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
Podcast idea: UX Agony Aunt where you send in anonymous questions/rants about working in UX and someone thoughtfully answers them and provides advice
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Podcast idea: UX Agony Aunt where you send in anonymous questions/rants about working in UX and someone thoughtfully answers them and provides advice
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I’m doing a talk at Button, a content design conference, where I’m going to talk about the high cost of tooling in the work we do. I’ve made a survey so I can capture some numbers. If you work in content/design/adjacent (yes, ESPECIALLY if you’re unemployed) this is for you (and thanks!)
Pay to play: content and design tooling landscape
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August 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m doing a talk at Button, a content design conference, where I’m going to talk about the high cost of tooling in the work we do. I’ve made a survey so I can capture some numbers. If you work in content/design/adjacent (yes, ESPECIALLY if you’re unemployed) this is for you (and thanks!)
Having one of those days where I feel like The World's Worst Designer. Tell me your favourite and least favourite GDS component to cheer me up, maybe?
August 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Having one of those days where I feel like The World's Worst Designer. Tell me your favourite and least favourite GDS component to cheer me up, maybe?
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What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence.
August 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence.
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This absolutely drips with contempt about constituency work “repetitive, rules based tasks, lacking social or emotional complexity and minimal creative judgement” and avoids the obvious solution of giving more powers and funding to local government. capx.co/weve-automat...
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We need MPs who can tackle our national decline – or AI may do a better job.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This absolutely drips with contempt about constituency work “repetitive, rules based tasks, lacking social or emotional complexity and minimal creative judgement” and avoids the obvious solution of giving more powers and funding to local government. capx.co/weve-automat...
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reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
August 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
"...we need to judge this field by what it’s currently doing, and not the vibes of the past."
In this week’s newsletter we talk about how to maybe not build the Torment Nexus, which of course we’ve already built.
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How to not build the Torment Nexus
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August 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"...we need to judge this field by what it’s currently doing, and not the vibes of the past."
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Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
The AI age is the "age of no consent"
"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
And it needs all of your data to do it.
In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:
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Hi everyone, I’m looking to improve the process of joining the GOV.UK Design System community.
I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year.
If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .
I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year.
If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .
July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hi everyone, I’m looking to improve the process of joining the GOV.UK Design System community.
I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year.
If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .
I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year.
If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .
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For the past 10yrs or so I've tried to explain to students how keyword searching trains us to see looking at the world as seeking a known target. By contrast, being in a library, archive, gallery asks us to make a network of connections, questions, possibilities. Which one makes thinking more free?
Seems to me an increasing amount of bad history is based on the idea that you can just keyword search terms (esp. 21st c. terms) to locate origins & relative usage. It's totally unimaginable to these keyword searchers why folks in the past would use diff terms or not mention common practice at all.
"the term doesn't appear therefore the concept didn't exist" is genuinely very dumb?
July 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
For the past 10yrs or so I've tried to explain to students how keyword searching trains us to see looking at the world as seeking a known target. By contrast, being in a library, archive, gallery asks us to make a network of connections, questions, possibilities. Which one makes thinking more free?
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We're excited to begin publishing the wonderful talks from this years All Day Hey! conference in Leeds, held on 1st May.
July 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We're excited to begin publishing the wonderful talks from this years All Day Hey! conference in Leeds, held on 1st May.