Benjy Stanton
Funemployment part 1
Finishing my first contracting role
A few quick notes before I go on hols
Remote usability testing and paddle boarding
Discovery report feedback, stand-ups and Jukesie's talk
Finalising the discovery report, more running and my birthday
Slow progress in work, running again and lots of gigs
A user manual for me, version 4
15 user research days
A few links to design articles
User research, influencing decision makers and Figma sites
Welsh service patterns, paddle boarding and prepping for user research
Customising checkbox question pages with the GOV.UK Prototype Kit and Nunjucks
Retro note – have more retros
A technique for getting team alignment
A few positives
Losing team momentum
Mostly about my long weekend in North Wales
End of the week, sprint, month and quarter
Bit of weekend working
Our second round of user research
Being a non-Welsh speaking Welsh person at a Welsh music gig
A complicated prototype setup
Getting ready for usability testing the prototype
Vicky Teinaki
Resolutions and beach walks
Quick prototyping ready for a busy new year
Benj-ify Wrapped 2024
PI planning and prototyping
Vampire Weekend
Never half-ass two things
Moving teams again
What makes a successful usability test?
Travelling for user research and design workshops
Front-end dev standards
Prototype kit and nunjucks special
Observing users on site
New team and some great gigs
A tough week
Service assessment looming
Worrying about the future of interaction design
Contract extensions
Back from hols to a team shake-up
Design links and live music
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 18 and 19
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Weeknotes – series 07 episode 15
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 14
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 13
Thundercat at Bristol Beacon
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 12
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 11
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 10
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 09
3 interaction design things
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 08
Why I love remote work
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 07
Why Markdown is a great design tool
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 06
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 05
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 04
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 03
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 02
Weeknotes – series 07 episode 01
Helping to get quality code into production as an interaction designer
First 6 months contracting
Seb
My contracting goals 2023
First 3 months contracting
This is forty
Inclusive design for interaction designers
My first few weeks contracting
Setting up a new mac for interaction design
The stickers on my laptop, 2023 edition
Lining up my first role
I’m going contracting
Accessible PowerPoint presentations
Inclusive design resources
Visiting all the beaches in Swansea and Gower
Starting a blogroll
List of inclusive design books
Showing the post excerpt on blog post lists
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 14
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 13
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 12
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 11
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 10
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 09
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 08
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 07
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 06
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 05
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 04
My interaction design tools, version 3
A user manual for me, version 3
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 03
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 02
Weeknotes – series 06 episode 01
Things to do in Swansea
My first 3 months in the inclusive design team
Joining NHS test and trace
A user manual for me, version 2
Adding some basic CSS
Switching to Eleventy, but still naked
Family friendly TV shows with LGBT characters
Redirect custom domain name from GitHub pages to Netlify
Checking for visual changes with BackstopJS
Some personal goals for 2021
Deploy my Jekyll site to Netlify
Create a list of sample pages for testing
Change default branch from master to main
A plan for accessible maps
Weeknotes – series 04 episode 04
Weeknotes – series 04 episode 03
Weeknotes – series 04 episode 02
Weeknotes – series 04 episode 01
A user-centred design and data community
11ty resources
Teams who share their accessibility processes in the open
Accessible close buttons
Generally, it’s better to avoid opening links in new windows or tabs
My first year at Swirrl
Pens for UX sketching and note taking
User research activities for testing interface content
Making data part of the web sticker
Books about racism in the UK
Accessible search form mark-up
Some personal goals for 2020
Making data tables more accessible
User research questions for data users
What have I accomplished this decade?
Accessibility checklist
Using Shortcuts app to add location data to my posts
Going full Monzo
Work trips 2019
Finally went to Ty Cwrw in Mumbles last night, tried a lovely Tenby Brewing x Tiny Rebel ale
Coffee beans
Tiny Rebel beer mat
Design workshops
Writing user stories
Co-working spaces in Cardiff centre
Remote working pros and cons
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Weeknotes – series 03 episode 04
Weeknotes – series 03 episode 03
Weeknotes – series 03 episode 02
Weeknotes – series 03 episode 01
How to be a more resilient service designer
Weeknotes – series 02 episode 06
Weeknotes – series 02 episode 05
January 2019 bookmarks
Weeknotes – series 02 episode 04
Weeknotes – series 02 episode 03
Weeknotes – series 02 episode 02
Weeknotes – series 02 episode 01
Christmas day dinner timings 2018
December 2018 bookmarks
Five things Andy taught me
A user manual for me
NaBloPoMo round-up
Learnt recently that definition lists (DLs) can have multiple definitions (DDs) for every term (DT) and I’m so here for it.
Nice people saying nice things about the ONS website
November 2018 bookmarks
Blog stats
The stickers on my laptop
I’ve added previous and next links, so users can skip to the posts published before and after this one.
Speaking at Service Design in Gov 2019
A quick review of the Netflix She-Ra reboot
This is a quick test note from my phone. I’m using Working Copy GitHub client for iOS.
This is a simple note template. A note is a post that is typically short unstructured plain text, written & posted quickly, that has its own permalink page.
My first “no meeting” day
Adding h-entry to the posts template
Getting started with indieweb
A single word that makes the tricky task of changing nappies so much easier
Introduction to interaction design in gov
Leave me feedback
How improving typography can help us to meet user needs
100 blog posts
Interaction design tools
Swn 2018
Articles I’ve written that have been published somewhere else
Sid’s words
Good coffee in places we go for meetings and user research
New design team retro
Work trips 2018
NaBloPoMo progress
Creating the image post layout
9 miles to Glasto
October 2018 bookmarks
September 2018 bookmarks
How to focus in open plan offices
A plan for accessible charts
How to lead user-centred design
August 2018 bookmarks
July 2018 bookmarks
June 2018 bookmarks
Weeknotes – series 01 episode 06
What's the best way to mark-up an SVG map?
Weeknotes – series 01 episode 05
Kicking things off with the graphic design team
How to start a service design community
Weeknotes – series 01 episode 04
May 2018 bookmarks
Service walkthrough
Weeknotes – series 01 episode 03
Hiring a user experience (UX) designer at ONS
Weeknotes – series 01 episode 02
Weeknotes – series 01 episode 01
April 2018 bookmarks
March 2018 bookmarks
February 2018 bookmarks
My link sharing workflow
Use fewer layouts
Add a list of page layouts
January 2018 bookmarks
Change date format
Add SVG icons
Add aria-current to the site nav
December 2017 bookmarks
Accessibility for designers
We’re hiring 5 graphic designers at Office for National Statistics (ONS)
November 2017 bookmarks
My first 12ish months
Disney data
My 12 year quest to get a public service design job
Retrospective (my first 2 months)
User experience (UX) designer objectives
User research activity cards
Work with me at Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Creating a digital delivery culture
Visual note-taking with Eleanor Beer
Things my little girls have taught me about feminism
User experience (UX) designer skills
Should designers design content?
The first UK Government accessibility meet-up
The New ABCs of Research by Ben Schneiderman
Port80 2016
The last ten percent
Research findings over the long term
Training for the Welsh 3 Peaks
Speaking at Design Swansea in April
Great service design at Premier Inn
Usability research labs in the UK
Tools for recording usability tests
Baby guerrillas
When things get tedious
Goodbye WordPress
What’s the best way to learn UX?
Finding work and managing money as a freelancer
Reasons London
My top albums 2014
Responsive HTML email talk at Winter LocalHost 2014
Swansea design meet-up
My BlogConf slides
Who inspired me
Making responsive HTML emails
Freelancing and switching off
Notes on creating Twitter, Google+ and Facebook profile page images
Responsive email design
Worrying about health
User experience design
My name is Benjy and I’m a web designer
Readable, guessable and hackable urls
Web design tools
Why I like to use “smart quotes”
30 things done before I'm 30
Stickiness and lumpy bits
Crafting animation on the web
Crafting animation on the web an introduction
Animation as a design material
Immersive animation on the web
On knolling
An excuse for a blockquote
Design is an actual job
Designing user experience in casinos
BBC Newsnight talks graphic design and infographics
Swansea town sea shanty
First week at IPO