Dropping some Saturday morning notes. Actual project work is tricky to talk about at the moment, for various reasons so I’ll focus on the slightly adjacent stuff. This week (and some of last week probably): Outside of work:

I’ve not weeknoted for over 6 months now. This is a cheat week to get me going again. I was on holiday for most of it… We went to Cyprus. Don’t worry, this is the only holiday snap you’ll get. Only including it because as we stood and looked at this pier/hut thing going out…

Sneaking a September weeknote in. Its been a while and this past month has been pretty busy. My wife has worked more in the last month than for probably the last couple of years, strangely enough because they’re shutting the charity she’s been running down. She can now add ‘pulling up all the floor tiles’…

What time is it? It’s weeknotes time, time for reflection. Yep, the kids are still on a High School Musical thing. So they’re all stuck on my head. Anyway, time to get my head in the game. Spent today at Fonmon Castle, a lovely rural stately home with wonderful views of Cardiff (Rhoose) Airport and…

Last day of school here, had to drag the soon to be 7 year old out of bed with about 30 mins before she had to leave the house. If only she slept that long on weekends… This week in short:

I was meant to be watching my son, whilst my wife took my daughter to a party – but turns out he’d rather sit in the car there and back. So you get weeknotes instead. Lots of research sessions this week, I shared that I was pretty nervous about them but in the end they…

Its been a week dominated by user research logistics, which is a bit of a throwback for me. My past few years have been slightly removed from this process either through the type of role I’ve been in (not directly doing research) or through the type of people I was doing research with (direct staff…

Sneaking another May weeknote in before I’ve missed too long. The past 3 weeks I’ve been thrown a really challenging but rewarding piece of work, which has helped me recognise the kind of work that I really enjoy doing, and I think I’m at least a bit good at. The bits that have helped me…

So April disappeared hey. For me it disappeared whilst going back and fore to the hospital to look after my daughter. Thankfully she was never very unwell, we live very close to a very large, modern children’s hospital and we had great support from family and friends. But nonetheless, it has been exhausting. Everything else…

Its been a while hey? Three weeks in fact. I’m wrapping up this week having finished my first ‘engagement’ at the new job. I’m also getting ready for a week off, including a few days away in Bath without the kids. I’m not necessarily a big one for celebrating, but feels like a good time…

Shwmae,  Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus i bawb. Happy St David’s day to everyone.  Well if I don’t milk it today, then what’s the point!?  The saddest news of the day was that we discovered just before school that my daughter’s ‘Welsh Lady‘ costume (pretty much de rigour on St David’s day if you got to a…

I didn’t work Friday, because I needed to switch up my days – so these are quick late notes. Given this weeknotes seems to have taken a bit of ‘this is how I be a consultant’ angle. Why not read this other post about how to be a design consultant.

Latenotes incoming. Usual excuses, haven’t prioritised writing these publicly for a while now. This week and some of the last few weeks have been: Feels good to have finally got some weeknotes out in the public realm. An interesting read from this week was: Developing a set of principles for the design and delivery of…

Finally got myself in gear to write some weeknotes again. I was tired at the end of last year. I started drafting a ‘year note’ but gave up pretty quickly and went back to DIY to get the house ready for Christmas. So this is maybe a bit more of a general update but… Having…

Didn’t manage proper weeknotes this Friday. But I’m dumping a bunch of links that I’ve been reading/finding useful instead. Slightly different format, but that’s the good thing about your own blog. Nobody can stop me. I’ve not even read them all 👀 John Cutler’s review of ‘shape up’ which is loosely Basecamp/37 signals product development…

Keeping it brief this week, trying to do it before the evening, need to paint the kitchen ceiling.

Latenotes this week. I hadn’t planned on writing any necessarily, but after 2ish weeks of working on my first client work I’ve had one of those weekends where I’ve spent about as much time picking up the notebook next to my bed as I have actually sleeping. Apart from Saturday morning when my very generous…

Missed a week, didn’t manage to squeeze it into the work day and evenings have mostly been about moving our lives in and out of the kitchen after builders leave for the day, before slumping into bed to be honest. I’m now officially over a month into the new role. This is how the last…