Category: Weeknotes

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…

Its a bonus week this time around, so plenty to pack in. I started at public digital last Monday, but only worked three days and was off on Friday…so thought I’d save all my weeknotes up! Some thoughts on the last two weeks: The long read this week is an old one that has been…

Wasn’t sure if was going to write anything. I’ve been between jobs this week but trying to keep myself in the habit of weeknotes given I’ll need to keep them up in the new gig!  This week has mostly been.  I start at Public Digital on Monday. Excited but also expecting to need to learn…

Last day at Co-op, a real privilege to have worked with the CX, design, digital and operations team over the past 2.5 years. As I’ve said to everyone who asked, it still doesn’t feel real. But sat on the train back from Manchester for the last time it’s starting to sink in. Thankfully you all…

A bit of a strange week, to be expected when you share your own job on social media. Confirming leaving Co-op still feels weird, but you can now apply for my job. If its something you’re interested in, I’m very happy to chat about it. This week I thought about: Long read this week is…

We’re finally moving back into the house, with a bathroom very very very nearly complete. So that’s this Friday’s main highlight. Things I’ve been thinking about this week are: Long read this week is Successful iteration requires going beyond agile. The part that REALLY got me thinking is this: While software is a prerequisite to…

Trying to make this a thing again, two weeks in a row. Things that were on my mind this week: Long read this week from me is ‘The tyranny of collaborative ideation‘. One of the things I took away from my time at PDR was the importance of structured ideation approaches. With people with PhDs…

Obligatory ‘its been a while’. Over a month, we’ve been moving round different generous family members spare rooms whilst the bathroom is being done, and we navigate summer holiday childcare fun. Things on my mind (aside from whether that flooring will arrive in time) recently have been: Long read this week is everyone’s favourite service/organisational…

I’ve been pretty poor at weeknoting recently, things have been and continue to be busy – partly in work (managed to be in a design sprint, whilst also prepping another bit of discovery work at the same time two weeks ago) but mostly outside. We finally have a house move date, contracts have been exchanged…

Its been a busy week, but in a good way! I’ve actually really enjoyed the variety and manageable sense of urgency that its given me. This week I: Long read this week – the complete guide to measuring lostness. A approach to UX metrics I’d not come across before, but could maybe prove useful if…