Back to the weeknotes! If you’ve missed them, I did actually write one I didn’t publish a few weeks back, but decided to leave in draft due to the restrictions we have on communicating about government work in the run up to elections. Then I had two weeks of holiday. We went to Ireland for […]

I wrote this a while back but just posting now we are out of the local election restrictions on communicating government work. Not written for a couple of weeks due to the much needed bank holiday, which we spent doing some redecorating and sorting out the garden. We also made it to see George Takai’s […]

Writing up after a weekend of DIY, specifically re decorating our hall and dining room. I say re decorating rather than just painting as I have learned so much about prepping for painting, fixing cracks and trying to get surfaces right for the best results. We’ve got the place looking much nicer now, even if […]

Belatedly writing this weeknote. I set aside some time on Friday afternoons to reflect on the week and ‘put it to bed’ usually, but this week I was working on something around research ethics across GDS until late Friday so used up all of that energy. I had started doing work on my end of […]

Missed a week last week, which always means it’s been a busy one! Last week was mainly lots of research sessions. I ran 6 accessibility testing sessions with people with access needs, some of who used assistive technologies. Most of my work testing GOV.UK Forms has been using the prototype kit version so far. But […]

Coming to the end of this week pretty tired. I’ve had a lot more face to face time through work than usual, and some travel and this has taken it out of me a bit. It’s been a good one though. On Monday I headed over to Bristol for one of our roughly quarterly team […]

Missed a week or two on these notes for various reasons, but back on it now! Since I last wrote I’ve been pulling together a round of usability testing and doing the analysis with the team. It’s great working with a team who are very up for getting involved in user research, and the analysis […]

I’m late on this, but wanted to get it written and not get into the bad habit of skipping these notes! My lateness was a combination of getting delivery of a new laptop at the end of the day on Friday and going to some friends for dinner after getting distracted playing with it. Apple […]

After a great break over the holidays mainly spending time with family I was back to work this week. Lots of my team were still on leave this week, so it was a week of head down work focusing on moving some things forward on my own a lot of the time. I checked in […]

The last weeknote of the year, although I may take some time to write some reflections on the year as a whole as it draws to a close. I’m glad I picked this habit of writing weeknotes back up and I think I’ve kept the habit for longer than I did before back in 2016 […]