Design isn’t just creativity — it’s care. In this episode, Gerry sits down with Ali Fawkes, Head of Social Innovation at Humanly (founded by Jenny Parker) to unpack practical safeguarding and trauma-informed practice in design research. We trace Ali’s unconventional route from fine art and special education into service design, talk honestly about imposter feelings and labels, and get concrete about how to design safely — for participants and practitioners — especially on sensitive, high-stakes work.
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[00:00:00] Gerry Scullion: Hey folks, and welcome back to another episode of This is HCD. My name is Gerry Scullion and I'm a [00:00:05] human-centered service design practitioner based in the beautiful city of Dublin, Ireland. And today in the [00:00:10] show, I'm delighted to welcome Ali Fawkes from Humanly in London, and we're gonna [00:00:15] be talking about lots and lots of wonderful things.
[00:00:17] Gerry Scullion: Now, I caught up at Ali at the SD in Gov [00:00:20] conference where Ali was also speaking, and we really wanted to focus on a few different things. [00:00:25] Now this conversation with Ali is a powerful one, and we talk about her journey from fine art [00:00:30] and special education into service design and how that diverse background became [00:00:35] her superpower in the design world a lot.
[00:00:37] Gerry Scullion: We also dive into honest reflections and [00:00:40] feeling like an imposter when stepping into design for the first time and how she learned to embrace the [00:00:45] label designer on her. Own terms. And finally, we explore something deeply [00:00:50] important, but often overlooked How to design safely. This is [00:00:55] something that Rachel Deka spoke about in our keynote at sd and gov, but we echo that [00:01:00] conversation in this conversation with Ali today as well.
[00:01:03] Gerry Scullion: Ali shares how [00:01:05] humanly has built a strong safeguarding and trauma-informed practices into the work. Ensuring the [00:01:10] safety of both the research participants and the practitioners when tackling sensitive [00:01:15] social issues. It's a thoughtful, inspiring, and grounded discussion that reminds us that [00:01:20] great design isn't just about creativity, it's about care, it's about empathy, [00:01:25] and ultimately it's about responsibility.
[00:01:27] Gerry Scullion: If you like today's episode, please do like and subscribe and [00:01:30] do all the usual things that I ask you to do on this podcast. Ali is fantastic. I know you're [00:01:35] gonna love Ali. Please do connect with her on LinkedIn. If you like this episode, she's [00:01:40] more than happy to share any of her insights. I know it's a good one.
[00:01:42] Gerry Scullion: Let's jump straight in.[00:01:45] [00:01:50]
[00:01:53] Gerry Scullion: All right, Ali, how's it [00:01:55] going? Yeah, good. I've got to know you this week. Yep. Uh, we're here at sd and gov. [00:02:00] It's been one of the best design conferences I've been at. In a very long time, mainly [00:02:05] because it's focused on social impact. Yep. Which is a great segue for [00:02:10] you. Yes. So maybe tell us a little bit about your role, uh, where you're at and what you do.
[00:02:14] Ali Fawkes: Yep. [00:02:15] So, um, I'm Ali, I'm head of social innovation at Humanly. [00:02:20] Which is a small, uh, human centered design studio for social impact
[00:02:24] Gerry Scullion: with Jenny [00:02:25] Parker. With
[00:02:25] Ali Fawkes: Jenny Parker. It's Jenny Parker's studio. Yeah. Um, uh, but I've [00:02:30] been there since it started. Yeah. Back in 2017. Um, so yeah. [00:02:35]
[00:02:35] Gerry Scullion: Brilliant. I remember when people used to say it's just a small agency, and I would almost feel like it was [00:02:40] devaluing it, but I actually believe I'm a single person with a load of associates.
[00:02:43] Gerry Scullion: Yep. And I actually believe [00:02:45] that's a superpower. Yes. Um, and speaking of superpowers. [00:02:50] I wanna talk to you about your background. Yes, believe it or not, this is the third time we've tried to [00:02:55] record this episode, um, which gives us a little bit of an edge because I've [00:03:00] done 10 minutes of this episode before and I know, um, your background is what I would [00:03:05] describe as highly, uh, interesting and, um, [00:03:10] really, really brilliant to see people crossing over into the world of service design.
[00:03:14] Gerry Scullion: But [00:03:15] maybe we'll. That you tell your own story. Um, where, where and [00:03:20] what, what did you study?
[00:03:20] Ali Fawkes: So, uh, initially I studied fine art painting. [00:03:25] Um, well, I mean, actually I've studied everything, uh, costume, [00:03:30] construction, fashion, fine art, painting. I was a bit of a university hopper. Uh, I [00:03:35] could never find something that I kind of, sorry,
[00:03:37] Gerry Scullion: will help
[00:03:38] Ali Fawkes: that I stuck at.[00:03:40]
[00:03:40] Ali Fawkes: Um, but yeah, eventually, uh. Graduated with [00:03:45] fine art painting.
[00:03:46] Gerry Scullion: Nice. Where did you do that? Ster?
[00:03:47] Ali Fawkes: No, that was uh, university of [00:03:50] Kent in the end. Oh,
[00:03:50] Gerry Scullion: right. Very nice.
[00:03:51] Ali Fawkes: After Kingston and Central School, the speech and drama. [00:03:55] Uh, okay. I went over Kent, but then I went to the University of Cambridge to um, study, [00:04:00] uh, to be a secondary school art teacher.
[00:04:02] Ali Fawkes: Right. Um, but I never actually [00:04:05] taught in secondary schools. Okay. After I qualified, I went straight into working in special schools [00:04:10] Yeah. And teaching art to children aged, uh, two to 19 [00:04:15] with, um, you know, special educational needs, disabilities. And then I studied [00:04:20] for a master's in special and inclusive education.
[00:04:23] Gerry Scullion: Special.
[00:04:23] Ali Fawkes: Right. Uh, and yeah. [00:04:25] Worked in special and inclusive education for a while, specialized in [00:04:30] working with. Kids with very complex needs.
[00:04:33] Gerry Scullion: Yeah.
[00:04:33] Ali Fawkes: Communication challenges. [00:04:35] Um, and how sort of art can be used as a, [00:04:40] a way for people who don't necessarily have verbal communication or any formal communication [00:04:45] Yeah.
[00:04:45] Ali Fawkes: To communicate and express themselves.
[00:04:47] Gerry Scullion: Fantastic.
[00:04:48] Ali Fawkes: Um, then I worked, uh, with [00:04:50] adults, um, ended up as Asperger syndrome project officer at the University of Cambridge. [00:04:55] And then got brought into a project that Jenny Parker was the [00:05:00] designer on. It was a, um, project to design a digital product for people with learning disabilities.[00:05:05]
[00:05:05] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. And she had been brought in as the designer, but said she wanted somebody with sort of, um, [00:05:10] expertise in working with that group. People lived experience. So that, um. [00:05:15] Uh, because it wasn't an area she'd worked in before and I was brought in to provide that. Oh, [00:05:20] brilliant. We worked together for like a year, 18 months on that project, and
[00:05:24] Gerry Scullion: yeah, [00:05:25] so there's, there's two angles that I'm really interested in.
[00:05:27] Gerry Scullion: Yeah. One, one is your background and what, you [00:05:30] know, why I believe that's a superpower. Yeah. To bring those new dimensions to [00:05:35] the design, craft, and profession. And the second thing. Is your own journey? [00:05:40] Yeah. About, you know, moving from career to career. 'cause I, I speak to a lot of people and they're like, [00:05:45] I couldn't possibly move.
[00:05:46] Gerry Scullion: I studied psychology and I'm like, that's a perfect way to enter [00:05:50] into human-centered design and service design. Yeah. But going back to the first question, um. [00:05:55] How have you found the entering into the world [00:06:00] of design? Like under, you know, working alongside Jenny [00:06:05] and what was that kinda transition like?
[00:06:07] Ali Fawkes: So initially Jenny, everything [00:06:10] would describe me as resistant.
[00:06:11] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. I, uh, I [00:06:15] resistant. How so? Well, I, it wasn't totally new to me. Yeah. So human centered design [00:06:20] totally new to me. Yeah. I thought I knew. What I was do, like I thought I knew how to do research.
[00:06:24] Gerry Scullion: [00:06:25] Because you've been doing it for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've
[00:06:26] Ali Fawkes: been doing it for a while. I thought I knew how to do research.
[00:06:29] Ali Fawkes: [00:06:30] Um, I thought I knew how to work with people with learning disabilities. I thought I [00:06:35] knew this stuff. I'd been employed to do this stuff. And then, um, [00:06:40] through this project and through applying human-centered design and design research. [00:06:45] With this group, um, I learned that I've been wrong about a [00:06:50] lot of stuff.
[00:06:50] Ali Fawkes: Right. And a lot of way that ways that things are done sort of historically or [00:06:55] traditionally that are seen as the way things are done Yeah. Actually aren't the best way that, that they could [00:07:00] be. Okay. And it's just sort of an area where. Human centered design's never really [00:07:05] kind of ventured because it is challenging.
[00:07:06] Ali Fawkes: But yeah, by me and you know, Jenny brings the [00:07:10] kind of design expertise and had all of those skills. Mm-hmm. And by being able to collaborate [00:07:15] and put tho that knowledge together with kind of what [00:07:20] I had and those skills, we were able to develop a way that [00:07:25] meaningfully involved people who had never really been involved in any of these sort of Yeah.
[00:07:29] Ali Fawkes: [00:07:30] Processes. Um, before, okay. And actually genuinely get to understand what [00:07:35] people needed wanted.
[00:07:36] Gerry Scullion: Nice
[00:07:37] Ali Fawkes: challenge some of these really long held [00:07:40] beliefs around. You know what people wanted, how people needed things to be [00:07:45] done. Yeah. Um, which was amazing. And it was a huge eye opener for me. And I [00:07:50] also think it helps me up till now because it's not like I've always [00:07:55] been in human centered design and came into it going well, yes, I know.
[00:07:59] Ali Fawkes: This is [00:08:00] fantastic. I came into it almost resistant. Yeah. And learned how amazing it was [00:08:05] by having my knowledge. Challenged.
[00:08:09] Gerry Scullion: Yeah.
[00:08:09] Ali Fawkes: Which [00:08:10] means that when I meet people who are going through it for the first time and are kind of experiencing that [00:08:15] same thing or a sort of, um, skeptical Yeah. About how can this [00:08:20] possibly work, you know, to step into it.
[00:08:21] Ali Fawkes: Um, I can sort of go look. I understand how you feel 'cause I've [00:08:25] been there. I thought it was a bag
[00:08:26] Gerry Scullion: of
[00:08:26] Ali Fawkes: shot. [00:08:30] It's okay. Yeah. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Just sit with it. Just see what [00:08:35] happens. Trust the process. Yeah, I understand that. It's really, I know they all
[00:08:38] Gerry Scullion: look crazy with their [00:08:40] glasses and stuff, but It's okay.
[00:08:42] Ali Fawkes: It's okay. Honestly, it works. [00:08:45] Yeah. Honestly, we'll learn stuff that you've never learned through any other method, like [00:08:50] honestly, you will get a better outcome. And I think being able to [00:08:55] share that with people, it's very powerful. And say, you know, it's very powerful. Oh, I was brought in as an expert, [00:09:00] but learned I was totally wrong.
[00:09:01] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. Through this process is helpful. [00:09:05] Yeah. And can help reassure people.
[00:09:08] Gerry Scullion: You, you're basically saying, [00:09:10] you know, the Kool-Aid, you don't, you don't really have to drink the Kool-Aid, but just respect that it's [00:09:15] there and you know, over time just let it be there. Just let it be there. Yeah. Now I know. [00:09:20] Coaching designers and from especially training a lot of designers who may [00:09:25] say that they're not designers.
[00:09:27] Gerry Scullion: Yep. That transition period, um, [00:09:30] to eventually adopting the label of a designer, they're like, [00:09:35] well, I couldn't possibly say that 'cause I'm actually, I studied this and this and this. Yep. How was that for you? [00:09:40]
[00:09:40] Ali Fawkes: Really hard and I refused for a long time to call myself. Yeah, you still don't designer. I still don't.
[00:09:44] Ali Fawkes: That's [00:09:45] fine. I was, you know, a, a social innovation consultant and I had a social innovation love. [00:09:50] Um, yeah. I, I will call myself a designer [00:09:55] if I need to, but I, it is not, you know, I think it took me a long time. I'm no longer [00:10:00] uncomfortable with it.
[00:10:00] Gerry Scullion: Yeah. And how did you, how did you silence those? Felt imposter.[00:10:05]
[00:10:05] Gerry Scullion: The imposter thing, like I think
[00:10:06] Ali Fawkes: just over time and also, um, one of the things [00:10:10] I learned as I kind of got to, you know, learn more about the [00:10:15] process.
[00:10:15] Gerry Scullion: Yes.
[00:10:16] Ali Fawkes: Through that, you know, initial project and all those that have followed, [00:10:20] um, I always referred to that initial project has been like my apprenticeship.
[00:10:23] Ali Fawkes: 'cause actually it was, we were very fortunate. Probably [00:10:25] similar. Yeah. It was an incredibly lucky project in that we were following the, we were [00:10:30] able to go through the entire. Process properly. Yeah. Which is not that, you [00:10:35] know, common. Yeah. Um, was, it was interesting. Was really [00:10:40] interesting. Um, and I've lost my train of thought.
[00:10:43] Ali Fawkes: No, it's okay. Like the,
[00:10:44] Gerry Scullion: the transition [00:10:45] into, into the world and been calling yourself a designer, like, you know, like it's, [00:10:50] it's one of those stepping stones that some people step into straight away and they're like, yeah, I'm good. I'm happy to adopt it. And then. [00:10:55]
[00:10:55] Ali Fawkes: Uh, so what I learned through that was that actually I'd been applying some of these [00:11:00] approaches in previous work.
[00:11:01] Ali Fawkes: Just not knowing it. Yeah. Not knowing what that was called. Sure. Not knowing [00:11:05] that I was iterating, prototyping, adapting.
[00:11:08] Gerry Scullion: Yeah.
[00:11:08] Ali Fawkes: But I, um, when as [00:11:10] I learned about the human center design process, I was able to go, oh. But that's what I [00:11:15] did. Yeah. That's what I applied in that role. Yeah. That's how we developed this group [00:11:20] or that group, or you know, that's how this concept developed was because, you know, I [00:11:25] identified that there was a need.
[00:11:26] Ali Fawkes: We thought, well, let's give it a go. Try it out, or This didn't work. We [00:11:30] tried three different options. Yeah. You know, so. I love that. I think I became more [00:11:35] comfortable as I sort of learned more about it and then actually I have been doing it a while. [00:11:40] Just didn't know.
[00:11:40] Gerry Scullion: Yeah, I know. Absolutely. I mean, there's a lot to be said for not applying a [00:11:45] label to what you do and just saying actually the outcome.
[00:11:47] Gerry Scullion: You're a social impact. Yeah. Uh, consultant [00:11:50] and that really works towards it. Now in the SD and GO conference yourself and Janie [00:11:55] gave a workshop Yeah. Around, uh, both [00:12:00] practitioner and research participant safety. Yeah. [00:12:05] I'm deeply interested in that, having suffered still 10 [00:12:10] years later, dealing with vicarious trauma from research projects.
[00:12:14] Gerry Scullion: Yep. [00:12:15] Um. Can you, are you okay to explore that topic a little bit in the background? Uh, if [00:12:20] there's a personal arc to it. So
[00:12:22] Ali Fawkes: I think, yeah, there's very much a personal [00:12:25] arc to it. I think for me, I was quite because of coming from a background [00:12:30] where I had been a teacher and I'd also worked in advocacy [00:12:35] as a background where the kind of safety and safeguarding is very, [00:12:40] very.
[00:12:40] Ali Fawkes: Top of the agenda.
[00:12:42] Gerry Scullion: Yeah. And
[00:12:43] Ali Fawkes: it's in everything you [00:12:45] do. And when I came into human centered design, I was quite [00:12:50] surprised by some of the things that yeah, we were able to do in some way. You know, it's like, can you gimme
[00:12:53] Gerry Scullion: an example?
[00:12:54] Ali Fawkes: So [00:12:55] for me, home visits. Right. Were like, what? We can go and do [00:13:00] research in people's homes?
[00:13:01] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. Like they're okay with that. And, you know, [00:13:05] we've always, uh, humanly practiced doing that in pairs and [00:13:10] doing it very safely. But, you know, I'm aware that's not always the case. And also even [00:13:15] then, for me, it was really quite surprising because it's, you know, [00:13:20] um, coming from my background. But it, I learned it was absolutely the best [00:13:25] thing to do and it was great.
[00:13:26] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. But what I've sort of over time tried to [00:13:30] do is develop, uh, ways of bringing in [00:13:35] some of the, some of the. Sort of, [00:13:40] uh, resources that help to keep people safe. Yeah. Both the participants and [00:13:45] the practitioners without stifling what we do, so, right. Can you
[00:13:48] Gerry Scullion: gimme more examples on [00:13:50] this?
[00:13:50] Ali Fawkes: So it's about making sure that there are policies and.
[00:13:54] Ali Fawkes: [00:13:55] Like procedures in place so that if something happens, we know what to do. Mm. So for [00:14:00] example, one of the examples we used in our training session was if we're working on a [00:14:05] project well, where every time we work on a project, what we do is we identify, we go through what are the [00:14:10] potential risks, essentially what could come up in this project.
[00:14:14] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. Could there [00:14:15] be accidental or deliberate disclosure of [00:14:20] um Sure. Abuse or could there be, um. A [00:14:25] disclosure that somebody, um. Is feeling hopeless or suicidal [00:14:30] potentially.
[00:14:30] Gerry Scullion: Mm.
[00:14:31] Ali Fawkes: And if that comes up, what are we gonna do?
[00:14:33] Gerry Scullion: Yeah. What's the, uh,
[00:14:34] Ali Fawkes: because it's not [00:14:35] so as a practitioner, there's nothing worse than being in a situation where something comes up [00:14:40] and you don't know what to do.
[00:14:41] Gerry Scullion: Yeah.
[00:14:42] Ali Fawkes: If beforehand we've identified all those [00:14:45] risks and we've planned out, what are we gonna do in those situations, you are [00:14:50] not having to think in the moment and there's no stress on you because you're going, okay, I [00:14:55] know what I do in this situation. Mm. So for example, where we did identify that there was a [00:15:00] reasonable possibility that people might be disclosing that they were feeling [00:15:05] hopeless or suicidal.
[00:15:06] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. We had, um, everyone had [00:15:10] training. Around, around that and around suicide prevention. [00:15:15] We wrote it into our, um, safeguarding policy and practice and into
[00:15:19] Gerry Scullion: consent as [00:15:20] well. Was it?
[00:15:20] Ali Fawkes: And, um, it wasn't. Well, we always put in consent when,
[00:15:23] Gerry Scullion: like the documentation of [00:15:25] if you're feeling like these things and you identify them, we are duty bound to.
[00:15:29] Ali Fawkes: [00:15:30] We always say that. Okay. So we all, when it comes to consent, as far as I'm concerned, informed [00:15:35] consent's only informed consent if people know the limits of the confidentiality. Yeah. And that is always [00:15:40] gonna mean that if someone tells us something, that means that we str, we believe that they or [00:15:45] someone else is at serious risk of harm.
[00:15:47] Gerry Scullion: Yeah.
[00:15:47] Ali Fawkes: We have to tell someone.
[00:15:48] Gerry Scullion: So in that scenario, say [00:15:50] you're engaged by. A government or an NGO, whoever it is. Yeah. Like we need this piece of research [00:15:55] though. We need some experimentation or prototyping. And the previous people that have been in [00:16:00] haven't done informed consent and they haven't gone to the lengths of saying, well, if someone in [00:16:05] research tells us that they're feeling suicidal, uh, they don't have any policy in place.
[00:16:09] Gerry Scullion: [00:16:10] Um, and then you go back to the client and you say, we just need to put all those safeguarding measures in place, and then they put [00:16:15] you into the too hard basket. Which is a very, very common scenario for people. I've [00:16:20] been in that scenario. I said, listen, we need to look at consent. We need to look. And they're like, we just want a quick fix.
[00:16:24] Gerry Scullion: It [00:16:25] sounds like you're too much of a purist. Have you navigated that?
[00:16:28] Ali Fawkes: To be honest, we find that [00:16:30] it reassures clients. Yeah. If we are, the ones going
[00:16:33] Gerry Scullion: lovely. Yeah.
[00:16:34] Ali Fawkes: Actually, [00:16:35] we need to explore the what could happen. Yeah. These are the risks [00:16:40] we've identified. Can we check? What are your policies on this? Yeah, we'll align what [00:16:45] we do with your policies.
[00:16:46] Ali Fawkes: We'll make sure we're all in agreement. We co-design the plan of what's gonna happen [00:16:50] in different circumstances. So in that situation where we identified there was a real [00:16:55] risk of, of sort of people potentially feeling hopeless or suicidal, we, um, [00:17:00] we even drafted an email that we would send to people. Um.
[00:17:04] Ali Fawkes: That [00:17:05] had signposting, that had links to support and that was agreed by the [00:17:10] client. It was agreed by everybody on the team. So we knew exactly what our steps would be, should that [00:17:15] happen. Yeah. And it just meant that it's not only safer for the participant because we know that [00:17:20] they're gonna get support, but it's safer for us because we know how we're gonna, I love respond in a circumstance, all of us.
[00:17:24] Ali Fawkes: And we [00:17:25] do that in every project. Yeah. I go, you know, we go through, we identify what are the risks often [00:17:30] if we're working with children.
[00:17:31] Gerry Scullion: Yeah,
[00:17:32] Ali Fawkes: we make the plan of, you know, what is it we're gonna do? Well, [00:17:35] what we do is we're gonna align with the school safeguarding policy. We always read the school safeguarding policy.
[00:17:39] Gerry Scullion: [00:17:40] Yeah. I love it.
[00:17:40] Ali Fawkes: You know, we all have safeguarding training.
[00:17:43] Gerry Scullion: Yeah.
[00:17:43] Ali Fawkes: Oddly, it's [00:17:45] for, it's actually, it appears to be designed for like plumbers because it's [00:17:50] um, N-S-P-C-C training for people who go into other people's [00:17:55] homes.
[00:17:55] Gerry Scullion: Right.
[00:17:56] Ali Fawkes: Like plumbers.
[00:17:57] Gerry Scullion: Yeah. Oh, okay. Right.
[00:17:58] Ali Fawkes: Because that's the [00:18:00] most similar kind of scenario, scenario we could find.
[00:18:04] Ali Fawkes: Wow. Um, [00:18:05] because actually we are not providing the people we're doing research with the [00:18:10] service. We are not, yeah. Their social worker that they, they're, I know it's a very, and there's no. [00:18:15] Guidance around what are you meant, do how to approach. How to approach it. Yeah. What are the, you know, [00:18:20] there's just nothing.
[00:18:20] Ali Fawkes: We've had to kind of read everything. We can take what [00:18:25] we know, what we feel, what we, and develop all this ourselves. Yeah. Um, [00:18:30] so yeah, we kind of found that that was the best. Training there was. [00:18:35] It's what you do if you go into someone's house, you ident how to identify that things might be [00:18:40] wrong, what you should do in those circumstances.
[00:18:42] Ali Fawkes: Yeah. But as somebody who's not there as a service provider [00:18:45] to that person, I understand.
[00:18:47] Gerry Scullion: So you're working on a lot of stuff at the [00:18:50] moment. Um, if people wanna follow what you're doing. Yeah. I know Jenny Parker's been on the podcast before, a [00:18:55] very popular podcast. If people wanna follow you in your own journey and reach out to you and [00:19:00] ask about your own journey.
[00:19:01] Gerry Scullion: 'cause there, there are people out there in the social innovation sector that. We'll look at [00:19:05] this. I'm gonna go look, that's exactly what I want to get into. Are you okay if people reach out to you and ask? Absolutely. [00:19:10] What's the best way for people to do that?
[00:19:11] Ali Fawkes: So on LinkedIn, I mean, my name's Ali Forks. Yeah.
[00:19:14] Ali Fawkes: [00:19:15] Um, and I'm just Ali a l, iCore Forks, F-A-W-K-S. And on the [00:19:20] same one socials. That's my,
[00:19:21] Gerry Scullion: yeah. I'll put a link to whatever we can find into the show notes. [00:19:25] And as I said, YouTube as well. If you're watching a description, it's in there as well. You can connect with Ali. [00:19:30] Ali is remarkable. A breath of fresh air.
[00:19:31] Gerry Scullion: I love speaking to people who are, you know, not from a [00:19:35] traditional design background and have moved into this world. You add so much to the, the [00:19:40] disability design, so great. And if you see Ali or uh, Jenny at any conferences [00:19:45] over the next couple of months, make sure you go up and say hello to them. Uh, they're wonderful people as well.
[00:19:48] Gerry Scullion: I'm always very happy
[00:19:49] Ali Fawkes: to
[00:19:49] Gerry Scullion: talk. [00:19:50] Alright, thanks for your time. Thank [00:19:55] you.