Antony Poveda

Ha, common part of the job as designers it seems. I get referred to as the 'Oracle' 😬 I'd much prefer magpie!

As a public servant, I'm trying out writing weekly notes to let people see what I do. #weeknotes #govdesign
This week: antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/28...

If you want to be a better designer, be a better content designer.

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:

@kateldn.bsky.social the next meetup, in case you're free 🙂

As a public servant, I'm trialling writing weekly notes to let people see what I do. This week: Realistic antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/22...
#govdesign #weeknote

The next 'X-Gov Sheffield meetup' is on Tue 17 March!

We're doing breakfast and lunch meetups in the cafe of Union St Co-working space for public sector folk around South Yorkshire. If you'd like to come along for either, or both, find out more and sign up 👇
forms.office.com/e/iZjT0cNisu

All sounds great! And, of course, a good style guide never goes out of style.

A mockup of a poster for our proposed competition. The 4 hosts and judges of the original 'bakeoff' TV show are behind a table covered in a blue and white checked table cloth. On the tables are various incredible cakes and fancy looking buns. The faces of the hosts have been covered by the logos for GOV.UK, DWP, Scottish Government, Home Office and Ministry of Justice. We've clumsily edited the original bakeoff logo to read 'Great Design System Bakeoff' by pasting over the word 'British'.

As a public servant, I'm trialling writing weekly notes to let people see what I do (while learning how to build a website): antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/14... #govdesign #weeknote

Life is good, thanks, fun, busy. Kid B is due in early April, so more of that coming, I suppose. How are things with you and the team back in the SW?

This is the story I often tell too. Great piece!

I taught a selectively mute pupil - and he taught me Teaching a pupil with selective mutism was often frustrating, says Vicky Heslop. But compassion inevitably triumphed

I was telling my favourite @imascientist.org.uk story again this afternoon and it prompted me to look up the TES article written about it: www.tes.com/magazine/arc...

Sheffield Design Lab: UK2040 Project | Future Observatory A three-day design studio in Sheffield exploring strategic questions for UK 2040. Moving beyond solutions to identify meaningful research agendas for cities.

“Sheffield Design Lab took place in November 2025, as part of Future Observatory and Dark Matter Labs’ UK 2040 programme” (I was delighted to be able to run this strategic design lab in my hometown of Sheffield, recently, with @darkmatterlabs.org x Future Obs.) futureobservatory.org/news/sheffie...

Is this bait? 😅

And such lovely thoughtful take downs in the comments. 2016, what a time.

I don't often post articles myself but when I do they are great longer reads about how neuroscience is built on and hindered by on the technology metaphors of the day: aeon.co/essays/your-...

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"ok so just checking, following that argument through, is it legal for you to deny people access to public services based on their current education level then?" /S

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

One week left to join this hack day!

Be there or be square.

🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

#hack #DesignSystem #government

I love improving the Service Manual + Standard.

But I'm even more interested in fixing the management of the mountain of GDS+govt content about making great public digital services.

Strategic, joined-up, no duplication or contradictions. Users not having to stitch it together themselves.

Do the hard work to make it short.

Testing a new GOV.UK publishing application: Content Block Manager We’ve built an application that allows GOV.UK publishers to create and reuse modular content. Find out how it works, what we’ve learned from testing and what’s next.

This is excellent work

insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/t...

Thanks Kate! It's already been ace to see the variety of people who've come along for the first few. Please do join us one day if you'd like to 🙂

For anyone at #ukgc26 today usually based in Sheffield: the next 'X-Gov Sheffield meetup' is on 27 Jan!

We're doing breakfast and lunch meetups in the cafe of Union St Co-working space / If you'd like to come along for either, or both, find out more and sign up 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

I'm also trying to remember anything I was up to in 2008, and have absolutely no idea

Wow well there's always next year, see you there!

Was hugely excited for my first UK Gov Camp this Saturday, but had to drop out :( will be living it through #ukgc26 instead and hope everyone has an amazing time. And maybe saves me a sticker or 2? 🤞

A woman with long dark hair and light skin standing behind a lectern and in front of a large canvas with a projected slide above her, saying: “what’s next? Collecting feedback and ideas, governance model, onboarding more departments, new content: professions, engineering portal” next to a picture of a laptop showing a digital library with the headline “find and reuse digital service elements”

“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services”

@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:

reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk

had some stuff to get off my chest about strategies ~ gilest.org/notes/strate...

It's time to get serious about design Design in government has lost its way. We’ve invested in discovery, compliance, and delivery, but not in creativity.

Let’s start re-designing how Governments works!

It's time to get serious about design cathydutton.co.uk/posts/its-ti...