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Richard Edwards
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Co-director at @outlandish.com, designing + building socially positive tech (see https://nookcrm.com 🥳). Also UX at https://openux.design
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I’m in awe of @karenhao.bsky.social and their book #EmpireofAI. (The audio version is great). It does an incredible dive into the mindsets driving AI scale culture, data colonialism & all the ills, PLUS it tells the story of the tech in such an accessible way. Get it from an ethical bookshop now!
Screenshot of the tech noir-ish style audio book cover for Empire of AI - Inside the reckless rave for total domination, by Karen Hao
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Spotted in our office meeting room this morning 😅 #traitors #celebritytraitors
A whiteboard in an office meeting room. Someone has written very large and neatly across the full board: FULL TRAITORS DISCUSSION ALLOWED.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Well played, team. Well played.
A photo of a tradesperson’s van, belonging to a Metal Roofing Specialist. The business name is Full Metal Jacket.
November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This week the NookCRM team are bopping about to the news of: welcoming our 12th #communityenergy org to our CRM pilot AND our becoming a member of @commenergyengland.bsky.social 🥳🎉🥳
A map of England overlaid with the text “I’m a member Community Energy England”
September 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Levant hawkmoth. Just hanging out. 🦋
A very large brown moth in the corner of a dusty window frame.
August 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Yesterday we held a fantastic event for #LondonDataWeek, gathering urban ecology data, talking about citizen science, and connecting with lovely people!
A man speaks to a group of people in the street about infrastructure to increase ecological stability. A photo of a black ball like fungi on a tree called King Alfred’s Cakes A photo of a wild barley growing amongst leaves. A group of people in a room sitting around three tables, talking. A slideshow is visible presented on screen in the background
July 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I’m off to #CoopCongress today in the incredible Rochdale Town Hall. I mean, just look at it!

I’m hoping to build some solid connections & opportunities for the coop tech sector 🥳 #coops
A photo of the interior of Rochdale Town Hall, with high arched ceilings and stained glass windows reminiscent of a grand church but actually depicting scenes of trade and history.
July 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Today I got a cold call from someone selling business financing. On asking, they said they’d got my personal phone number from Lusha - an AI powered prospecting tool.

“But don’t worry it’s all okay with GDPR”

We said most #AI would be used for marketing. Welcome to the enshittification. 😂
A screenshot of Lusha.com. It promises: Al Recommended Lists Get an Al-powered personalized recommendations lists of companies and decision makers you should talk to, based on your ICP without manually A screenshot of Lusha.com. It promises: Al Prospect Playlists Turn any prospect list you've created into a live list with a never-ending stream of new leads—tailored to you. Set the frequency, choose how many, and get fresh prospects added automatically.
July 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Resting in the embrace of a cherry laurel
An old and mossy gravestone sits at the heart of a large, broad cherry tree. The long, arm like branches reach out horizontally from the base, far and around the headstone toward the camera.
May 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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I love Rosenfeld for their #uxdesign books but I’m not sure about them using their entire catalogue to train #AI. What do the authors think?
Screenshot of an email, which reads: Richard, At Rosenfeld, we like to keep our finger on the pulse of all things UX, and we pride ourselves on our high-quality content-so much so, that we trained an Al chatbot on our resources. Meet the Rosenbot! Powered by GPT-4-level technology and trained on thousands of hours of curated content from our UX experts, and the entire Rosenfeld Media library (over 60 books!), the Rosenbot is an invaluable research tool in your UX journey!
April 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Now I’m stretching(?) those same design chops some more, by moving on to this. The first chapter is already aces. #servicedesign #systemsthinking
The vividly designed front cover of CLOSING THE LOOP - Systems Thinking for Designers by SHERYL CABABA. Foreword by Kevin Bethune from Rosenfeld
April 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I decided to strengthen my #servicedesign chops and have pretty much finished (and enjoyed) Service Design - from Insight to Implementation by @andypolaine.bsky.social and others. This Rosenfeld series is cracking.
The front cover of the book Service Design - from Insight to Implementation.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Fly specked moon shell 💙
A speckly, tubby sea shell sitting on a red brick.
April 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Spotted a little red bellied jumping spider in a Lilly
Very close up shot looking into a white Lilly prominently showing the yellow stamen, with a tiny red bodied spider next to it.
April 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Moving on to (and excited about)…

(Also woop! @berkun.bsky.social)

#uxdesign
Cover of the book Why Design Is Hard, showing its heavily annotated and humorous design style… alongside a fresh cafe decaf latte
April 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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What is it about this kind of blue? Here’s all my blue apps. All on one screen.
A screenshot of a phone screen showing 24 blue app icons.
April 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Just had an inspiring & informative day at our most recent CoTech gathering (Coops.tech = the UK network of cooperative tech businesses). Here’s what we discussed 😇 #coops
A whiteboard showing a conference agenda for the CoTech Gathering. Sessions include those on business development and cooperative tech tools.
March 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A forest of ice crystals on the car today ❄️
Ice crystals on a car roof Close up of a forest of ice crystals on a car roof
January 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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What would it be like if nature was on your company’s board of directors? This week at @catapultnetwork.bsky.social , we had a great talk from Faith in Nature who’ve legally done just that 1/
A presenter stands in front of a screen showing a slide that reads (in bright and friendly curvy letters) “How light business change if nature had a voice and a vote?” A presenter stands in front of a screen showing a slide showing illustrations of raised hands, each reaching towards the phrases “guardianship model”, “independence and accountability”, “purpose clause” and “nature has an equal vote”.
January 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I found this #uxresearch classic online, used but in classic condition for just £3.20! #uxdesign #ux
A book being held up to camera. It’s a slightly dated looking paperback non-fiction book called InterViews - an introduction to qualitative research interviewing.
January 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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And now I just unwrapped my post to find that this beauty has arrived a week earlier than expected. It is definitely going to be a game-y Christmas! #cardgames #boardgames
A box for the card game Spaceteam. The lid shows a 1950s style cartoon rocket, and bears the caption “Spaceteam - a chaotic and cooperative card game”
December 24, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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PS I lost, of course. But here’s the box. It’s 40 years old!
The box for the MB Games board game PAC-Man
December 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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At my parents house, found a 40 year copy of the Pac Man board game! Let the gobbling commence! #xmas #boardgames
A board game of Pac Man laid out on a kitchen table ready to play, with plastic ghosts, marbles to eat, and hungry little pac men.
December 24, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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So true. And time to share this again I reckon:
A photo of a magazine showing a quote from Joanna Maciejewska: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
December 13, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Time efficiency vs connecting empathetically with people’s needs (when you’re in a v human focused role) feels like an AI trade off, alas. Like this when doing research 👇
A sketch showing an axis of user research. At one end being more productive by using AI. At the other being more empathetic by not using AI. Both approaches are subject to biases.
December 1, 2024 at 3:16 PM