Richard Rutter

Design effectiveness in 2026… We've updated our industry survey to find out what makes design effective for organisations in 2026. Are you a designer / researcher/ developer / product person? Have you got <7 minutes spare? Tell us your experience (easy to answer): www.surveymonkey.com/r/RTTG77C

We’d love your help in filling out the Design Effectiveness survey. If you’re a designer or design-adjacent (researcher, developer, product owner, etc) or simply have opinions about design, then you’re welcome to join in. www.surveymonkey.com/r/RTTG77C We’ll share all our findings later this year.

I look forward to the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year every year, and it’s that time again. I love Icy Window by Audun Rikardsen: www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/... Clearleft designed the WPY website – it's one of our favourite ever projects. clearleft.com/work/wildlif...

We're pretty darn proud of this one, and of the work that the entire Clearleft team have put in to it. It's in beta so tell us what you'd change in the comments, along with a little commotion for the name pun 👌

Excellent there's a fix for column layout reflowing at the fold, but as @rachelandrew.co.uk says later "When you fragment things, you end up with problems such as headings ending up as the last thing in a column or page." Quite rigth - won't somebody please think of the ebooks! clagnut.com/blog/2426

In 2019 we surveyed over 400 designers on what makes design effective. With Covid and AI changing how we work, it's time to take the temperature again. If you're a designer or design-adjacent, we'd love your help with our 7-minute Design Effectiveness survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/RTTG77C

Reading this currently, and thoroughly enjoying it.

Not my usual kind of conference, but it was fantastic to co-present a design workshop with our clients at UCL, having helped them with their research into digital exclusion. We co-designed an app to help people with longterm health conditions, and are currently co-writing a handbook on inclusivity.

Great reminder appearing in @clearleft.com’s Slack today, passed on by Rhian Evans, our super-experienced project manager: Project teams need to ask “What is the most important thing for us to finish next?” #projectManagement #agile

Had a lovely chat with @typetogether.bsky.social's Veronika Burian on Unfinished. Amongst other things, we talked about the origins of TypeTogether (who are now 20!) as well as the Futura 100 project. Have a listen or a watch: unfinished.bz#ep-144 #typography #podcast

Join us on Thursday (3rd) for the latest Service Design Breakfast at @clearleft.com's studio in Brighton. servicedesignbreakfast.com #serviceDesign

Don't forget tomorrow's Service Design Breakfast Club. Sign up and you'll get exclusive access to Lou Downe's UX London talk on Bad Services. servicedesignbreakfast.com

Remember it's Service Design Breakfast club this Thursday at @Clearleft's studio in #Brighton. Come and chat all things #serviceDesign, but in particular "Bad Services". It's free and open to all. servicedesignbreakfast.com

This is utterly fascinating and a thing of absolute typographic beauty: storiedcolors.com #typography

If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you're not a visionary, you're just a cunt

Was part of our @ffconf.org news yesterday, but posting here too: we launched the FFConf Speaker Feeds page: ffconf.org/feeds/ It pulls all the latest blog posts for perusal, and you can cherry pick your own curated feed and download the OPML file for feed reader import. I'm quite chuffed with it.

Well look at this: "A conference for #UX researchers who want to become better at understanding people, not just better at running #research." clearinsightconf.com Luke explains more: clearleft.com/thinking/ann...

“At present, other than Epstein Island regular (allegedly) Bill Gates, the scummy gaggle of tech bro nightmares we occasionally have to hear about are trump level self aggrandizing paranoid losers.” The superbly angry Robert Llewelyn llewellyn.substack.com/p/the-ai-is-...

"Call it out. Tell your friends. Write to your MPs and councillors. There will be protests – join them, we are going to." Our statement on the latest EHRC Code of Practice. lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

“Electoral/Media/Tax/Housing reforms, Rejoin, Sanction Israel, Green Industrial Rev, restore all human rights” Josh is spot on about Labour’s current position

Recommended.

I'm running a promotion on Leanpub right now. Get Human Software for just $1 or for free with a Leanpub membership leanpub.com/humansoftware #booksky #writingcommunity

Don't forget, our service design breakfast club is this Thursday morning (7th May) Sometimes we have a speaker lined up, sometimes we have a hot topic in mind, and sometimes we simply go where the conversation flows. Give us a heads up if you'd like to come 👉 ti.to/clearleft/se...

Don't forget! The next Service Design Breakfast Club is tomorrow! servicedesignbreakfast.com Join us at @clearleft.com's studio in #Brighton. It's free and open to anyone. #serviceDesign

I'm a bit less biased and I agree.

Calling all morning people who also love to chat about service design. Our next service design breakfast club will be next Thursday, 7th May. Whether you’re a seasoned pro, just getting started, or quietly curious, come along. It's free, just let us know you’re coming 👉 ti.to/clearleft/se...

I like the way my friend thinks…

Remove Palantir from our NHS. Get Palantir out of our country. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Everything we do in our day jobs at Clearleft goes hand in hand with organising an event. Project management, years of speaking experience, with all the design & UX thinking we can throw at it. That's why we've been hosting it for 17 years! Check out this year's impressive lineup 2026.uxlondon.com

Spring sprung

If a spacecraft could talk, what would be its trans-lunar injection burn?

The piece that @flarup.bsky.social posted a few days ago remembered me of something @localghost.dev had posted a while ago and triggered me to write reasons “Why We Need to Be in the Same Room” (again). marcthiele.com/notes/why-we...

Go on, it's Friday, treat yourself to... a Q4 2025 edition of 'which premium streaming service pays the best / worst?'! No prizes for guessing that Spotify are easily outpaid by pretty much everyone else. Great stuff, guys! www.patreon.com/posts/stream...

This is not an article that Steve, the author, thinks should exist in a healthy industry, but the shape of our industry — especially right now — makes this sort of article very necessary and hopefully helpful to you in your job. piccalil.li/blog/applyin...

The UK government is stuck treating the symptoms, not the root cause of online harms. Nothing changes until we break the business model that drives hate and extremism; the harvesting of our data to maximise engagement and fuel advertising. It's time to #BreakBigTech. Sign and share our petition ⬇️

I can't stress this enough, do not host client work on Vercel. bsky.app/profile/konn...

"An error occurred". Why is this the same story with every Government procurement portal ever? I tried "contact our Customer Support Team" about this error and the contact form sent my straight to this error page. FFS stop wasting my time Proactis you bunch of cowboys.

Pretty spectacular and fascinating article on insect migrations, documenting how butterflies cross oceans and moths use the stars to make their way around Earth: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Seems pretty obvious that people don't want Palantir involved with our NHS Another good reason to show Labour the door in the May local elections 💚

I had such a good day at #WebDayOut yesterday. Really enjoyed giving my talk on web typography to a lovely crowd – warm, knowledgable and supportive. So glad we filled the house in the end, because the other speakers were brilliant, with talks that deserved, and needed, to be heard.

Want to learn about the very latest advances in #HTML, #CSS, and #JavaScript APIs? Browsers are capable of so much nowadays... There's just 2 more days left to buy a ticket. Use JOIN_RICH for a final discount. webdayout.com

This was so much fun to do!

🎧️ New pod drop! "Orangutan covered in coconuts" In this episode we talk about how AI coding tools fit into their workflows at @Clearleft and Stuff & Nonsense. Then, Andy explains how he used AI to help him build Sho!io, his new app for sharing designs. unfinished.bz/episodes#ep-...