Jack Garfinkel
curiousscutter.bsky.social
Jack Garfinkel
@curiousscutter.bsky.social
Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
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User stories for #ContentDesign - work in progress, feedback welcome ☺️ medium.com/@jack.garfin...
User stories for content design
What are user stories for? How can you spot a good or bad user story? And how can you use them to test and improve your content?
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yes please
Someone’s done the Wrath of Khan Starfleet Field Coat as a unisex cardigan.
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
[bath time]
me: are you not entertained?!
child 2: i am
me: that's nice
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thank you for the music, Jimmy - when I felt lost Many Rivers To Cross made me feel seen and Wonderful World Beautiful People gave me faith that there might be better times ahead for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies, aged 81
The musician was known for hits like You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
spotting design theatre when the real goal is making a thing that exists to made and made to exist, but as a service
In losing UX and Human Centred Design, you lose any centre for why a thing is designed or manufactured.

It exists to be made, it is made to exist. 2/2
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Word: I will formats bulleted lists differently when you use the menu or keyboard shortcut
Me: why?
Word: fuck you, that's why 👍
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
asking people not to keep chronological or relational data in whiteboard apps, but as a service
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Lukewarm UX take: you'll get more useful info from stakeholders asking them about the relationships and differences between things instead of definitions
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Child 2 was a bit poorly - they are 3 now. They were in a right grump. But I held them, and swayed with them and said I would look after them until they fell asleep in my arms. Been a long time since they did that. Hope it's not the last time.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
if you need more friction in your relationship why not pick up this collection of random cables www.freecycle.org/posts/100681...
A Post on Freecycle.org: Electrical leads
via The Freecycle Network™: Electrical leads - see photo. mainly SCART and mains leads, one HDMI.
www.freecycle.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What to feel
When you read the blog post
By the content designer
About using AI to guide content design
Using a design system
So big and well-documented
And you can't imagine producing stuff
At that volume
Or that level of buy-in
But it's cool I guess
...but as a service
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
teaching fellow consultants living dat 2 laptop life about KVM switches, but as a service
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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We're socialized to constantly apologize for being too outwardly excited about things, but this world is so full of terror and misery that I'd rather see those bursts of light and passion shine through the cracks wherever you can find them.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I love these conversations because I also get to learn new things. Meet the Red and White Giant Squirrel of China!

Up to 4ft long from nose to tail. Wild!
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
being professional just after your kid has shat into a bag, but as a service
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I had an urge to make and share this extremely niche venn diagram because I have a problem
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is bloody awful news 😞
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
blog posts i want to write number 163 - having the artefact was never the point, updated to cover LLMs
November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
aldi pomme bears are called teddy faces - and that's all I have to say about that
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Q: "she is also into archeology and recently single"
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
yes.
soup in a bread bowl is a sandwich
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM