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Colin @htmlandbacon.com · 2d

the blackjack one is amazing!

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Colin @htmlandbacon.com · 2d

Always great seeing the thinking around potential design changes on govuk frontend github.com/alphagov/gov...

[Experiment] Added 4px corner radius to all buttons by mia-allers-gds · Pull Request #6315 · alphagov/govuk-frontend

ImportantJust an experiment/ do not merge As part of Scope brand related design work the team has decided to explore the idea of adding rounded corners to buttons. Design considerations I've ...

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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · 2d

The Bad UX World Cup is accepting entries for 2025. You have to design and build a deliberately awful date picker component.

To be honest, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some non-ironic date pickers in production that could win this thing! 🤣

badux.lol

@whitep4nth3r.com @nordcraft.com

Bad UX World Cup

Build a bad date picker and win a shit trophy! Presented by Nordcraft.

badux.lol

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 5d

You wouldn't know it, but Thursday evening I had around 320 things in the Design Systems News 'to read' backlog.

I'm down to ~150.

If you've not subscribed yet - news.design.systems

If you fancy giving me a little support - buymeacoffee.com/sturobson

🙏🖤

Design Systems News

A publication full of interesting, relevant, and curated links.

news.design.systems

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Eric Portis @ericportis.com · 8d

If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community

alice.boxhall.au

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Ben Patton @benapatton.com · 9d

I feel my webby friends would like this. Might be a fun excuse to dabble in random things and show some fun possibilities with your skills!

Thinking of the recent convo with @amyhoy.bsky.social on Javascript.

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 9d

A really cool idea: a challenge to build a little website every day in October based on a daily theme.

weirdweboctober.website

Weird Web October

A challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day

weirdweboctober.website

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 15d

Little reminder that Inclusive Design 24 is currently happening, and the talks and discussions have been fantastic so far!! It's free and you can join live, but also, you can catch the replays on YouTube later.
Here you go: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/

#Accesssibility #InclusiveDesign #id24

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

inclusivedesign24.org

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Colin @htmlandbacon.com · 17d

"Annotating designs using common language" by @craigabbott.co.uk

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/09...

Annotating designs using common language - TetraLogical

In most organisations, design documentation often includes annotations, but accessibility-specific ones are still rare. That’s a missed opportunity. Annotating designs for accessibility helps everyone...

tetralogical.com

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Shaun Conner @sconner.net · 22d

We're hiring a Lead Technical Writer to join our UCD leadership team on GOV.UK One Login.

Salary £67,972 - £83,027.

Quick Check Needed

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · Sep 10

Here's a #CSS study list, 100+ features to checkout from the past ~5 years.

There're surprises in here for even the most knowledgeable front-end developer!

nerdy.dev/cascading-se...

One List To Rule Them All · September 10, 2025

In the darkness may it bind us

nerdy.dev

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · Sep 4

The 1st CSS Exploration is live! 🥳

Dive into the world of CSS alignment and unlock all its secrets!

css-tip.com/explore/alig...

It's time to correctly learn how all the properties work in every layout (interactive demos included 🤩)

Centering? No, we are going beyond that!

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · Aug 24

Why would anyone drag and drop a local file in front of their eyes when they could sign up and install an expensive cloud-hosted AI agent and type out a long, specific, English language command to move it?

gist.github.com/0xs34n/a5738...

The Death of the User Interface

The Death of the User Interface. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · Aug 27

Something I and many others in the NHS have spent months working on has just gone live, a big update to design system and frontend! 🎉

See service-manual.nhs.uk/design-syste... for the changes.

Not super glamorous work, but it helps improve the foundations for our digital services.

Updating to version 10 - NHS digital service manual

In August 2025, we released version 10 of the design system and NHS.UK frontend library with new features, updates and bug fixes.

service-manual.nhs.uk

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Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · Aug 21

What makes content accessible? A personal blog post from me on:
- structures
- senses
- complexity, ‘noise’ and maintaining a sense of place
- fast, shallow tests in production
- testing with disabled people
- hiring disabled people onto design teams

medium.com/@jack.garfin...

What makes content accessible?

Someone recently asked me how I make content accessible. That’s a short, important question with a big answer. And, it gets harder to…

medium.com

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Colin @htmlandbacon.com · Aug 20

sounds pretty punk to me

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Colin @htmlandbacon.com · Aug 14

I am yet to meet a component that hasn't been butchered and made inaccessible

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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · Aug 9

@inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is a non-profit organisation, and we’re able to keep the spirit of Inclusive Design 24 alive because of the generosity of our supporters.

If you'd like to join them, there's more info here:
inclusivedesign24.org/2025/support...

#id24 #accessibility #inclusion

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion

inclusivedesign24.org

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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · Aug 10

The State of CSS 2025 survey results are now available:

2025.stateofcss.com/en-US/

Big thanks to @amitsheen.bsky.social, @saron.bsky.social, @miocene.io, @sjoy.lol, @joshwcomeau.com, @kilianvalkhof.com, and all the other contributors!

State of CSS 2025

2025.stateofcss.com

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Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk · Aug 8

Let’s start re-designing how Governments works!

It's time to get serious about design cathydutton.co.uk/posts/its-ti...

It's time to get serious about design

Design in government has lost its way. We’ve invested in discovery, compliance, and delivery, but not in creativity.

cathydutton.co.uk

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · Aug 6

During the dark days of Covid, I was involved in launching some of the NHS services like questionnaires.

I was berated by some *very* smart people who insisted that it could all be built in about five minutes.

All the quickly launched services had horrific flaws.

👀 shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08...

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Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk · Jul 31

What’s one thing you wish was more widely known about digital accessibility?

I’ll go first.

I wish more developers knew how to check elements for accessible names, roles and values.

#accessibility #a11y

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · Jul 30

Don't trust the (design) process! Jenny Wen argues that designers became obsessed by the process, (personas, journey, flows), to the point where we forgot the actual project itself.
I tend to agree here, I’ve seen consulting companies / agency sell whole abstract deliverables, ...

Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process

For a good period of time, between like, 2014–2020, design was all about The Process. You know it. Yeah, that’s the one:

jennywen.ca

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · Jul 28

Ambiguity…

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Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · Jul 21

At the NHS we’re teaching designers how to code with the NHS prototype kit, instead of using visual tools like Figma.

Find out why in the blog post below! 🎉

Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social · Jul 21

a new blog post from me and @frankieroberto.com on the NHS' design matters blog on why we're putting a lot of effort into both improving the NHS prototyping kit and making it easier for designers to use it

digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...

Why we are reinvesting in the NHS prototype kit - NHS England Digital

Frankie and Mike explain why we revived the NHS prototype kit, the benefits of prototyping in code and how digital teams in the NHS can get started using it.

digital.nhs.uk

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Colin @htmlandbacon.com · Jul 18

And so begins the burnout loop

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