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Simon Thompson
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Intranets, user experience, and connected content. Mad for movies, the perfect 3-minute pop song, non-sequiturs and general silliness.

Also never gonna run around in dessert shoes.

London, UK
Downside: cruise ships have mortuaries because of the inevitable

Upside: some probably have their own moustached Belgian detective
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Alt text for the frame in question:

A stick person wearing a t-shirt and holding a notebook: Okay, cool, and I'm assuming you currently have no content you can share for this? A slightly wider stick person wearing a tie: Nope, none whatsoever.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Honestly, I leave lots of space for my characters to think and talk about what's going on in their lives.

People (including fictional people) will always identify patterns in their own experience, even if those patterns can be a mite imaginary.

I let my characters tell me what patterns they're in.
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Which brings me to the first law of form design:

→ Nobody wants to use your form

Because JIRA, like most digital products, is full of forms.

• Creating a ticket is a form
• Updating a ticket is a form
• Finding a ticket is a form

The truth is:
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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So the point here is

Your customer service is shit, your products are shit, your banking is shit, TV is shit, well, everything is shit because as long as the share price increases, the company doesn't actually gives a fuck if the product or service is shit

Because they're making money

16/n
a man in a suit and sunglasses is holding a bunch of money and throwing it in the air .
ALT: a man in a suit and sunglasses is holding a bunch of money and throwing it in the air .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
But then, is it bin day when the bins are collected, or when they need to go out? Are you, then, a bin night person?
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
There’s a good argument this needs to be a key principle for a lot of content
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Have you tried finding the alley?
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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This is Perplexity's attempt (I nearly needed oxygen after seeing this)
November 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is Perplexity's attempt (I nearly needed oxygen after seeing this)
November 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM