weeknotes

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Weeknote for Monday 6 May 2019 to Friday 10 May 2019

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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

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

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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Weeknotes week commencing Monday 30 December 2018

The pre-title sequence Another start at weeknotes. Maybe a case of new year, fresh start, but a convenience of reflecting in the last couple of months of last year. I took 2018 as a walk on a path I was continually moving along and didn’t take much time

Weeknotes s02e04

For week commencing Monday 24 July Prelude After weeks 1 and 2 and week 3 this is the last week of a limited four week run of weeknotes from my experiences on the NHS.UK “beta” programme. Thank you for reading so far. Primary care finders I started the week

Weeknotes s02e03

For week commencing Monday 17 July Prelude It’s Friday night. I’m frazzled. But still enough juice in the tank to pick through my notes to bring you some weeknotes from NHSbetaland. Primary care finders Wednesday we had an “inception session” for primary care finders. (“Inception session” may give

Weeknotes s02e01 and s02e02

For weeks commencing Monday 3 July and Monday 10 July (So these are probably fortnightnotes, but let’s just roll with it, yeah?) Prelude My last open week notes were back at the beginning of March, ending off a period of about 18 weeks of weeknotes around the NHS.UK

Weeknotes s01e18

Week commencing Monday 27 February Episodes 14 through 16 will have to go down as “lost episodes”, like older series of Doctor Who. Episode 17 I was off from NHS Beta. I did a quick general week ending note between 16 and 17 though. A belated thanks from those “missing

Weeknotes s01e13

Week commencing Monday 23 January Monday London: Assessor training at GDS. Chuffed to be able to do this, and thankful for the nudges. Wish I’d done it sooner. No real reason why other than had my head in the sand too much over the past six months on the

Weeknotes s01e12

Friday, again. Time to peer through my week’s notes and pull out the NHS beta stuff. Monday: I was in Leeds, and spent most of the day watching user research sessions in Londson remotely. We’re looking into user needs for sexual healthy services. We listened to people talk

Weeknotes s01e11

Week two of 2017 is done and dusted, and it’s late on a Friday night as I type this. I can hear the bells of the church in Idle chime away eleven times. It’s been another jam-packed week. I think I have just about – right now – got

Weeknotes s01e08, s01e09, and s01e10

Sorry about the break since the last weeknotes. Think of this like you’ve had a holiday away from it all, you’ve left the generic digital TV recording box to collect the episodes of something while you’re away and there’s a little bit of catching up to

Weeknotes s01e07

No weeknotes last week mainly because, to be honest, I couldn’t be arsed. My personal weeknotes that these are usually culled from were a little bit grumbly about work at the end of that week – and I don’t think we should air our dirty laundry in public. I

Weeknotes s01e05

A bit of tick-tocking-along week in the day job. Nothing really to report. Stuff is happening. Most of the more eye-catching stuff day job stuff involved the mothership. Most of the more mind catching stuff for me happened outside of the day job – and these notes ain’

Weeknotes s01e04

Amongst pressing on with the primary focus in Leeds (a little more on that further down), it’s been a week about stitching bits together, seeing clearly how the collective NHS.UK beta work fits (and doesn’t fit), what needs doing yet, and working to make sure we know

Weeknotes s01e03

At the end of last week I noted that work was full on. It’s a week on from those notes, a long week on. But it’s been a rewarding week, adding up to a rich fortnight. We started the week with Dean joining us, bringing the Leeds posse

Weeknotes s01e02

Once my first post for the NHS.UK Transformation blog was up (a quick recap of the EHI Live session I was on) it was full into a week of pretty much full time, full on designing this week. I am trying this sprint to get us from next to

Weeknotes s01e01

At the end of every week Matt Jukes publishes notes on his working week. (Here’s this week’s.) For the past few years I’ve written similar notes into Evernote as a “private blog”, but not publicly published them. I am going to try and publish what I can