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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · 1d

100% wouldn’t recommend inheriting another PM’s product choices without understanding how they made them, choices they had and why they chose the direction they did.
Decision logs aren’t just to hold yourself accountable and absorb any risk - it’s the whole context story. Log it. Please.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · 15d

My favourite part of presenting at our annual conference today was being asked to talk about the most valuable thing the team has delivered this year.
And deciding that I wasn’t going to talk about the features, performance testing, or scaling. I decided to talk about the people who did the work ♥️

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hi Neil, yes. Unfortunately due to the nature of the licensing in place with ProdPad and coupled with how locked down DWP laptops are, I can only share with those internally that already have a licence. Very frustrating! I need an alternative platform I’m afraid!

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Aug 5

What platforms are folk using to build, iterate and most importantly share their roadmaps?
Mine is in Prodpad, but it turns out I can’t share it with anyone that doesn’t have a licence.
Needs to be ‘government laptop friendly’…

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sunday Scaries - 7pm and right on time, in the bath, they hit me like a slap from mi Nana!
Annual leave means low team capacity, no capacity senior leadership team, end of sprint, integration challenges, discovery timescales, a new delivery plan, security and scalability testing…
What are yours? 🫣

Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 31

Sitting in an interview today, a new user researcher to join the team.
I’m there to provide context and answer questions about the project.
‘Standard questions’ were provided.
Not a single one about experience in accessibility. Nothing about how would they recruit AT users.
Nothing. Disappointed.

Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 29

Put a days flexi-leave in today to start trying to find my 20yr old son a new room to rent in September, he’s been renting for a year now. It’s so damn hard for young people. And so expensive! £600-£700pm for a bedroom in a shared house, with 6 others. In Newcastle.
What real chance do they have?

Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 29

An invitation to pause, mid sentence, where the comma sits, to really create space around the message you’re trying to convey. I promise that the pause, however uncomfortable, will positively shift your status in the space.
An invitation to try.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Yeah but what do you mean by accessibility? Coz we work on an internal service…so it’s different.”

No. No it isn’t.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 17

ADHD burnout is no joke. One full day in the office equates to a 3 hour sleep on the sofa.
Can only liken it to when your laptop just powers down and does a windows update…
#adhd

Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 14

Nowt will drain a high performing or high achieving person more than having to clean up after mismanaged incompetence.

Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 12

It’s going on a wall when I get back to the office next week.
Really enjoyed your talk, brilliant as always

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 12

Reminding my body that this is something I can do.
15 to 20mins of bag work at the end of a weights session has been a revelation. Like therapy. And a good calorie burn too. My technique is rusty, but still grateful that my body remembers how to move like this.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jul 12

“Human involvement creates humane outcomes.”
@amyhupe.bsky.social said this at @frontendnorth.bsky.social conference in Sheffield this week, and it’s really stuck with me.
Succinct, brilliant and such a valuable way of framing the work.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you! This is the other hand. Hand painted by my insanely talented best friend 🥐🍝🍅🍊

Brightly coloured, hand painted nails with polka dots, tiny chilli’s, tomatoes, oranges, a small croissant and the words pasta sl*g

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jun 13

Product managers/owners who are driving internal business strategic change… how much are you relying on change management? Arguments for and against.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jun 12

Just two tired nerds on our way back from three days of phenomenal UX London conference learning, workshopping, talking, observing, listening and being inspired…bravo Clearleft. You folks sure know how to curate a conference! #UXLondon @craigabbott.co.uk

Close up of Craig and Eliza looking into the camera with tired expressions. Craig has a dark beard and is wearing a black cap. Eliza peeking over his left shoulder

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jun 11

Day two of #UXLondon and very much looking forward to @craigabbott.co.uk’s talk!

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Jun 10

Craig at Camp Digital anyone? 🤗

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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · Jan 19

Honestly, if ChatGPT were a person, I think they’d be a middle aged white dude.

It’s staggering amount of times it delivers wildly incorrect answer with absolute confidence, rather than just admit it doesn’t know.

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Andrew Hick @andrewhick.bsky.social · Dec 18

Our report on 3 years of #accessibility monitoring is live! 16,000 barriers removed across the UK public sector, the most common are contrast, focus, keyboard and reflow. Chris Heathcote's blog and link to the Government Digital Service report: accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/17/w... 📜 #a11y

What GDS has found from public sector accessibility monitoring

Find out what our team found from the last 3 years of monitoring the accessibility of public sector websites and mobile apps.

accessibility.blog.gov.uk

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Dec 12

Presented to a Judge today about making changes to appeal response documents to make them accessible.
These are the conversations that make my job amazing 😇

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Dec 8

Chopped my hair off.
It’s giving Natasha Romanoff and I’m not mad at all 🧡👩🏻‍🦰

A mirror selfie. I’m wearing black high waisted jeans, a brown long sleeved top and have my hair cut into a copper bob.

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Dec 3

Talks. Best ones you’ve seen? What was great about them and what were they about?

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Eliza Lawson-Abbott @elizalawson.bsky.social · Nov 28

I reckon that’ll be yours for a few days to be fair 😂

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