📅 Daily note for 26 November 2024

My new shed, sorry, home office is coming along nicely. It’s quite big! # Transforming the DBT Intranet⬈ – where DBT = ‘Department for Business and Trade’. # Visualising Government as a Platform⬈ – by Ben Welby. # Getting into service design⬈,…

📅 Daily note for 22 November 2024

Whoops, forgot to hit publish on Friday. # Another kerr-azy week of having too much to do and too little time and energy to do it. # A short post I put up on LinkedIn (and published here and on…

📅 Daily note for 11 November 2024

My ongoing search for the perfect ‘everything bucket’ has led me to UpNote⬈. It looks good, but expect me to never mention it again. # Against the standardisation of product management⬈ by Roger Swannell. Am stealing this: standardise where interoperability…

📅 Weak note for 8 November 2024

I have not been feeling great for a few weeks now – generally run down I think although occasional bouts of toothache aren’t helping. This week has been particularly bad – like wading through treacle whilst being quite grumpy. I…

📅 Daily note for 30 October 2024

Am thinking again about the structure of my blogging here. I’d much rather than the individual paragraphs in these daily notes existed as posts in their own right, as well as being collected together for the whole day. That way…

📅 Daily note for 28 October 2024

Ten reflections on design leadership⬈ by Martin Wright as he departs TPX Impact. # Gavin Beckett is moving on from Placecube to Public Digital, which is nice for him, but for us means he has written a thought provoking set…

📅 Daily note for 24 October 2024

Patient records and the NHS App⬈ – or why this stuff is really, really hard. # Southwark Council⬈ have made some interesting design decisions on their new LocalGovDrupal website. A week note from Catherine Howe⬈ should always be celebrated. #…

📅 Daily note for 17 October 2024

Is it really 13 days since I last posted one of these? Terrifying. Still, it means plenty of links to share. # Rich Pope: Government is not an app⬈ # Tom Loosemore: What we mean when we say “Be Bold”⬈…