How UX, UR, HCD and other acronyms have been a constant throughout my career journey — I’ve always struggled to effectively tell the story of my career, it’s something that causes me a lot of heartache because, when you have a #SquigglyCareer it can be confusing to explain and for others to understand what holds…

For a while now I’ve been thinking about and crafting an approach to ensuring project impact and sustainability in my organisation. We do lots of work that is very impactful, but I believe more could be done add even more value for the stakeholders we work with. — As part of this I’ve developed (for want of a better word) a manifesto, this responds to thinking I’ve covered in previous weeknotes: I wonder what would happen if we saw things differently? To think about the work as a river, running past us, constantly moving, and each of our…

Post-Glasgow note — Up Up The first half of this week I felt pretty pressed. …

Building a learning culture, 7 things I’ve learned It’s been two years since I joined the Digital and Data team at Social Finance and (almost) two years since I set up and started running Digi team surgeries. I’ve been running these two-weekly sessions but I’ve never really spoken about them – what they are, why I do them…

Weekpoint5notes — My cadence is all out of whack. Last week, because I had been away in Estonia (and had lost a weeknote to an alternate timeline). I was late to hit publish. It was Tuesday by the time I did, which then meant by the time I got to another end…

The lost notes I’m in a cafe on a sunny Monday afternoon in Letchworth Garden City. This cafe is attached to the famous David’s Books and record shop, and they do an excellent flapjack. I came all the way back from Tallinn only to realise I had forgotten my keys and was locked…

Just below the surface — Up Up Another week where I’ve felt things moving. There are cards carried over in my trello board which show that things are happening. There have also been useful and interesting conversations. This week has felt more collaborative and that is very helpful for my wellbeing. I’ve had conversations across our team…

A manifesto? — Last week I used the Konami code as a bit of a structure for this. It feels kinda useful because each week is full of ups and downs, it feels maybe like another weeknote structure, where left and right mean looking sideways. So maybe we stick with this for a…

The Konami code of weeks — Up Up The week started with a team away day. We headed to Brighton and the sun was out and it was nice to be by the sea and somewhere entirely different for a change. I had mixed feelings about going to Brighton, just because it has been a long time since…