Antony Poveda

Antony Poveda

@tonytoners.bsky.social

Some sort of designer/Head of Morale, mainly content. Working for users of government. Stealing all your best ideas since 2014 (reading stuff, not much posting). antonypoveda.design Sheffield.

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Antony Poveda
@tonytoners.bsky.social

I am begging, err, maybe everyone? Please stop telling me what things are 'not'. Save your poor readers' time, and my sanity, and just skip to what it actually is. Please please please. Thank you 🙏. #UselessScreamsIntoTheVoid

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Shane McCracken
@shane.mccracken.org.uk

This has cheered me up on a day when other things have not. Just downloaded the report for some late afternoon reading. I hope the rest of it doesn't give me nightmares: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

royalsociety.orgScience for society | Royal SocietyThe Royal Society has published the Science for society report exploring the multiple connections between science and the public, and proposes recommendations for how these connections might be streng...
Jack Stilgoe@jackstilgoe.bsky.social

The % of scientists who think public engagement makes science better has gone up from 21% in 2006 to 64% now. That's huge.

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Terence Eden
@edent.tel

New blog post: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/ The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed …

shkspr.mobiNHS Goes To War Against Open SourceThe NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…

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Frankie Roberto
@frankieroberto.com

Do you need a separate design system for your staff vs public facing services? It’s a common question, but at the NHS we think the answer is No. I’ve published a blog post to explain why: digital.nhs.uk/blog/design-...

digital.nhs.ukOne design system is better than 2 - NHS England DigitalFrankie and Ananda explain why the NHS design system is not just for public-facing    services, with an overview of recent changes to meet the needs of staff-facing services. There’s also mo...
Antony Poveda
@tonytoners.bsky.social

Wow massive flashback to my time in kitchens and working this out. The machine. Can. Never. Stop. Great (huge) thread on how workplaces really work.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

> This machine takes 2 minutes to run a cycle. We are on the clock for 8h. That means we have a maximum of 240 times we can run this machine. If you want to wash all those dishes, clean your station, mop and clock off by midnight? This machine has to be on and running every second of the shift. 38/

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Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social

A good piece about content-first design from the Defra design blog: "With prototyping tools at your disposal, it may feel like a waste of time focusing on content as a first step. But using only words helped our team to understand the purpose of each interaction."

defradigital.blog.gov.ukDoing content-first design at Defra – part oneIn the first of a two-part post, content designer Laura Parker and senior interaction designer Daniel da Silveira explain how and why they took a content-first approach to creating a form building too...

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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social

Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design. AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships. So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

productpicnic.beehiiv.comUX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them.Stakeholders want to vibe code and have designers clean up after them afterwards. But rather than helping with velocity, there is just more noise and more work for everyone.

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Adam Silver
@adamsilverhq.bsky.social

Content design is just design with a bias toward the words. And that's a good thing. Many designers spend hours tweaking spacing, colours, and layouts. But once you have a set of accessible components, it's content that matters most. Content design shapes everything: