@amytdesign

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Love UCD and service design, thinking, doing, food, tv, reading and walking. 
Based in MCR, UK. Queer 🏳️‍🌈 She/her
Apologising for over sharing by explaining how your past trauma has made you prone to over sharing
Never ceases to amaze me how many orgs say they are user centred and ultimately it’s still the hippos with a shopping list at the end of the day.
Ever think your job is mostly figuring out what your job is / how you can be helpful? January pains… off for a run to clear the head.
still waiting for any post from Royal Mail this week including all my birthday cards. (Was Tuesday) It’s been a quiet one that’s for sure.
Don't make me tap the sign

"In 2010, a different group of researchers found that pedestrians struck by light trucks (a vehicle classification that includes pickup trucks, some vans, and SUVs) were 50 percent more likely to die than those hit by sedans and other smaller cars. Larger vehicles also have significantly larger blind spots, making it harder to see pedestrians, especially when they’re children."

https://www.vox.com/23462548/allison-hart-pedestrian-deaths-suvs-deadliest-roads

Jessica Hart’s 5-year-old was killed by a car while riding her bike in DC. Now Hart is fighting for safer str…

SUVs, trucks, and other large vehicles are responsible for too many pedestrian deaths. Allison Hart’s mom is fighting back. 

Vox
This is an excellent and fascinating animation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018
by @jburnmurdoch
(hang in - it takes a few seconds to begin)
Just read this "Tim Berners-Lee's “Oh, Yeah?” button could have changed the internet" and was thinking about #openbadges the entire time. Trust is such an interesting concept to explore algorithmically. #keepbadgesweird cc @dajb @AnneKanne
https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/oh-yeah-button-tim-berners-lee.html
The Button That Could Have Changed the Internet

In the ’90s, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, suggested something to help us sort through information.

Slate
Very disturbing videos of Kayne West this morning. Stop giving hateful people a platform.. #kaynewest