Principal Product Designer @halasystems, formerly @BBCRD. Technology, electronic music, games.
Joined October 2008
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Alex Nelson retweeted
17 Jun 2023
I called so many people on the phone to tell them their loved one was dead or dying in December 2020.
"Can I come and see them?"
"We have to protect everyone we can from this. No visitors are allowed. I'm so sorry."
"I understand."
Meanwhile in CCHQ…
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Alex Nelson retweeted
23 Apr 2023
What other kind of product is so *embarrassing* that people feel compelled to explain it? No, no I didn’t really buy this thing. Honestly I didn’t.
Twitter Blue will be a marketing case study for years to come
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Alex Nelson retweeted
5 Apr 2023
Lol, my fellow brits using Windows 11 with en-GB in the Insider Program might have noticed that MS has mistranslated ZIP files as "postcode" files in the latest builds.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
2 Apr 2023
Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
21 Mar 2023
Here's a little look at German cost of living vs British cost of living, which goes a long way to explain why British people are suffering- despite the UK being ome of the richest countries in the world
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Alex Nelson retweeted
9 Mar 2023
Andrew Neil helped front the BBC's political coverage for many years while also regularly sharing his own (very right-wing) views on Twitter. It never once splashed newspaper front pages, or led BBC news bulletins
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Industrial design of the 70s and 80s.
1. Kenwood Whisk — Kenneth Grange — 1971
2. Sony PS-Q7 Turntable — 1982
3. JVC Videosphere Television — 1970
4. Olivetti Divisumma 18 — Mario Bellini — 1972
Source: The Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Alex Nelson retweeted
8 Jan 2023
Via glenn_kitson on Instagram
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Alex Nelson retweeted
6 Jan 2023
I took this course and learnt a lot... which may not always be apparent in the way I write on here, but lots of great learnings to be had, I was applying in my day to day work the moment I finished
wearesnook.com/trainings/a-p…
#UserCentredDesign #Design #UCD #ContentDesign
ALT A practical guide to content design - Thurs 16th 9.00 - 13.00 Learn how to improve your services by creating inclusive and accessible content that meets your users' needs.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
26 Dec 2022
Nurses work 12hr shifts; sell their days off; use food banks; pay £1300 a year to park. And 40,000 have left their jobs in a year.
Tory MPs sit for 150 days; get subsidised food; claim travel & energy on expenses; get free parking & £2,200 pay rises.
Back the nurses please.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
29 Nov 2022
Twitter has quietly changed their policies to allow COVID-19 misinformation. This change will literally kill people.
transparency.twitter.com/en/…
ALT COVID-19 Misinformation About this report As the global community faces the COVID-19 pandemic together, Twitter is helping people find reliable information, connect with others, and follow what’s happening in real time. Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
23 Nov 2022
Tim Loughton(Tory MP) - I'm a 16 year old orphan, from an East African country, escaping a war zone & religious persecution, & I have a sibling legally in the UK... what is a safe & legal route for me to come to the UK?
Suella Braverman flounders badly
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Alex Nelson retweeted
10 Nov 2022
A good example of the problem of many sans typefaces having a lowercase l and a capital i looking identical.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
21 Oct 2022
For three years I tracked Johnson's lies and fabrications. Hundreds of them. The link below takes you to 60 plus time he misled or lied to Parliament in defiance of the ministerial code. NB: it only goes up to May this year.
boris-johnson-lies.com/johns…
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Alex Nelson retweeted
12 Oct 2022
One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.
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Alex Nelson retweeted
12 Jul 2022
Inspired by board games, @BBCRD researched how to design better remote multiplayer applications over the last two years. I'm so pleased to finally be able to share our paper & code. Check the website rig.rd.labs.bbc or read this short thread ⬇️
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Alex Nelson retweeted
10 Oct 2022
Yesss. Delighted to share my latest project! The Futures Bazaar is a public imagination toolkit in open access created with @futuryst and published by @bbc and @sitlab. bbc.co.uk/gel/features/futur…
#ExperientialFutures #ParticipatoryDesign #FuturesBazaarr
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