Weeknotes
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The Helping Hand
Notes about work again, now there’s a new government in town.
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The Niksen
Two weeks away in Cuba really sorted me out, giving me time and space to switch off fully.
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The Quiet
These are meditations on user-centred design practice, not my usual weeknotes.
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The Timebox 3–5
We got to the end of the timebox. But we didn’t quite meet expectations.
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The Timebox 2
Felt absolutely shagged this week, fully knackered. Tiredness aside, we’ve achieved what we needed to and can plough into next week with gusto.
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The Timebox
This week was a little different; the days blended into each other, there was much thinking done, and the new team are ready to jump into next week.
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The Team Things
Highlight of the week was the mini design sprint for autocomplete suggestions, to think about how we reduce interaction cost with GOV.UK’s site search.
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The Love
A really good week. I missed working on the Search team over the past few weeks, it’s such an interesting problem space.
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The Times and the Customs
It has been a heck of a week in the news, a week in which we were part of the news. O temporas! O mores!
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The Big Stuff
Brief notes from a big week when big stuff happened around Brexit.
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The Transience of Earthly Pursuits
It has been a very tough week, working at pace on a complex problem, the single biggest task for the UK’s civil service since the second world war.
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The Very Important Visitors
Headlines only for last week because it’s a busy time and things are moving fast.
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The Eagle
Was really grateful to spend time with good people this week, and to have chance encounters. Moments like that will make the coming weeks bearable.
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The Buzz
Bit of a buzz this week. There’s lots going on, almost too much, but it’s all good stuff going in the right direction.
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The Oops!
These notes come to you earlier than usual. It’s my birthday and I’ve got a few days off. Initiate Maximum Chill.
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The Milestone
This week, it felt like we achieved something by reaching a milestone. Here’s to gradual, iterative progress!
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The Birthday
It’s my weeknotes first birthday! 🎉 And we launched the new quarter working on GOV.UK’s site search.
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The High
Back on the wagon! Writing weeknotes last week did wonders for my brain, it’d be silly not to carry on this week.
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The Fatigue
Having not written weeknotes for 10 weeks, here’s a bunch of things I’ve done that should remind me I’ve done a lot.
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The Fishing Smacks
The first week of quarter one, 2019/20, was fairly decent overall. A stormy week with calm moments, a veritable feast of ups and downs. Goods. Bads. In-betweens.