week notes

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2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 20 April 2026

What is this? Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Running and health, culture, home improvements, work and adjacent things. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out there. Last week's note. tldr Midweek trip

2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 13 April 2026

What is this? Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Work and adjacent things, running and health, culture, home improvements, and personal stuff. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out there. Last week's note.

2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 6 April 2026

What is this? Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Work and adjacent things, running and health, culture, home improvements, and personal stuff. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out there. Previous week: Week commencing Monday

2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 30 March 2026

Previous week note: Week note — week commencing Monday 23 March 2026 The week where March turned to April and the long Easter weekend took me to Cleethorpes, Brighton, and Billinghurst. Health, body – and running Didn't do the end of week weigh-in as I was away. Expect I'

Weeknote, from Monday 20 to Sunday 26 April 2020

Where did that week go? I’d got back to reading a book a week again, but last week? A chapter, maybe two and that was it. Every day I went to the shed to work, I put out a copy of Wired and The Pursuit of Endurance (because I

Weeknote for week ending Friday 21 February 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} Half term so the kids were away, while I kept working. I need to stop doing that. There is probably a direct correlation between the kids’ absence and having a bit more evening time than usual, so a trip to the cinema (Bad Boys For

Weeknote for week ending Friday 14 February 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} Watched The Good Place, well finished The Good Place. It was good it ended and it was good it ended well. It told its story. Is knowing when is enough that tricky a skill, especially — especially — in television? That there’s only going to be

Weeknote for week ending Friday 7 February 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} I’ve felt groggy most of this week, pretty bad chest infection, and only really started to feel with it on Thursday. Noticing the change from feeling foggy minded to being clear minded was obvious though. On Thursday I felt like everything joined up in

Weeknote for week ending Friday 31 January 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} I inaugurated my daughter into the world of wearables. She’s got an elevated heart rate which reaches over 200bpm when she’s doing a bit of minor exercise, which the doctors reckon is fine. I’m a bit more there’s possibly something to

Weeknote for week ending Friday 24 January 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} * Started last weekend helping with Coder Dojo in Bradford. Ending up doing one of those great one on one lessons, sitting with a young person who was just so self-interested, keen to get on, willing to try stuff, and made progress. A joy! Fair enough

Weeknote for week ending Friday 17 January 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} * A rarity: Caught some live top flight football, and in the pub. Jamie Carragher interviewing is… just the same thing as everyone is a designer innit. We could all do it, just a question of how well. * I saw out last weekend climbing, which I’

Weeknote for week ending Friday 10 January 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} * Ah. That Darkness Christmas song has gone away, finally. * On Saturday’s run I was passed by the Brownlee brothers, who I didn’t really recognise at first. It wasn’t the first time they’d passed me over the past few months; I’ve

Weeknote for week ending Friday 3 January 2020

{% include weeknotes_2020_intro.html %} * I’ll publish these on a Friday every week. I’ll try not to make them too worky. There’s more to life than work, work doesn’t define me, work it girlf— Stop, Si. * There didn’t seem to be too much rain this

Weeknote for weeks 40 and 41 of 2019, 30 September to 13 October

What it’s been a fortnight of follows. Quite a few catch ups with friends and old work acquaintances. Some face to face, some remotely. It’s good to talk about stuff that isn’t work, the other stuff in life. It’s good to have what you are doing

Weeknote for weeks 38 and 39 of 2019, 16 September to 29 September

A couple of weeks “back in the trenches” as an interaction designer, starting out helping a squad because a designer was away. Staff are users too, so it is a Good Thing NHS Jobs is giving design consideration to those doing the “administrating” through the web channel of the service.

Weeknote for week 37 of 2019, 9 September to 15 September

One of those head down, keep at it working weeks: Continuing service mapping and then pausing it to get some artefacts/outputs done, "Maccing up" a journey map, gap analysis, some catch ups with people elsewhere in "the industry", and ending the week looking to look

Weeknote for week 36 of 2019, 2 September to 8 September

For a change, pretty much a copy and paste of my Evernote doc for this week, with a couple of snips and a couple of non-work things slung at the end. Lots of thoughts about delivery, what's "good enough", do we actually have a widespread "

Weeknote for week 35 of 2019, 26 August to 30 August

Bank holiday Monday, always a fun day. Lovely and warm to me, but possibly alarmingly warm to others and the planet. Went indoor climbing indoors, where the warmth outside was felt inside as I rose to the top of the walls, like climbing was being a human thermometer. At the

Weeknote for week 34 of 2019, 19 August to 23 August

It’s week 5 on NHS Jobs, working with Difrent and NHS BSA as a service designer. I have already had four weeks helping and just come off a couple of weeks away. I can highly recommend this tonic: Spend some time absorbing and getting to know stuff, have a

Weeknote for Monday 6 May 2019 to Friday 10 May 2019

{% include weeknotes_dwp_MoveToUC_intro.html %} How did our work move forwards? Planning was solid, some clear goals and then some clear tasks to help us meet those goals. The designing gang were patient working it through. Setting up to get on not setting to fall. Wednesday was elaboration of

Weeknote for Monday 29 April 2019 to Friday 3 May 2019

{% include weeknotes_dwp_MoveToUC_intro.html %} How did our work move forwards? Giving room to – and sometimes doing the work to make room for – the team, as a group or individuals, to go and do their thing is becoming more habitual. I posed the question a few weeks back “Why

Weeknotes week commencing Monday 28 January 2019

Monday was some wider design team actions (sorting out designers to get some experience on assessments, sorting designers for some upcoming assessments, little catch-ups with a couple of senior designers), a user research session go-through, and off the back of that getting down some screens to help talk through and

Weeknotes week commencing Monday 21 January 2019

A bit of everything week: Attending an assessment as a design assessor (and the associated prep beforehand and write-up afterwards). Helping with job interviews. Setting up a day of user research sessions (which meant doing some design work and then setting up a prototype as a stimulus). Floating in to

Weeknotes week commencing Monday 14 January 2019

Worky stuff Monday was working from the shed. Some product design work. Some graphic design. Sorting some new stickers. Reprinting some old ones. And a long video call with a user researcher who has recently joined join the project I am assigned to — Janine — giving an overview, the main shape

Weeknotes week commencing Monday 7 January 2019

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