The development of the service map prototype trundles along: Some fixes; Pulling through some new types of data the team has put into our database; A little tidying up some messy code and files to make it easier to update latest info in the future. I want to get this…

Intro Weekly notes from my time with the user centred policy design team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). Culled from end of week reflections with all the non-MHCLG stuff cut out and some edits to hopefully make them more understandable. This is a brain dump and…

After last week’s weeknote, Katy shared the note on Twitter: I think this is the first that anyone’s said publicly about some really cool cool work we’re doing trying to answer the big question: what is MHCLG for, and how can we do it better. So another week, let’s have…

Despite it being a guiding principle for work I’ve not been very working in the open the last couple of months. I’ve more been: Focusing on the full time contract I have been on since early December. Trying to preserve evenings and weekends for not work (when these sort of…

In the middle of October I was told to lay off running, to lay off just about anything strenuous on my right leg for six weeks. The detail is in October’s run note. So November has been a waiting game, an observation game, a little trial game. In November I…

Not carrying a Union Jack on this packaging, sorry. Project stuff Project MT was steady away this week then had some reprioritisation. Which is fine, but not so straightforward if that needs some of your time and you’ve only two days a week planned/budgeted for the project and you’ve used them by…

It got quite cold towards the end of the week, eh. I am being literal here. Projects I spent the most time on Project MT (I think a few people know I am working with/for Pilot Works, Placecube and Kit at the Royal Borough of Greenwich council), doing service design work…

Here’s a method I have used for the last 15 years to help me get on with my working day. I do this out of habit at the start of the working day. …

Several days back it was Ryan Gosling’s birthday, the cue for design people on Twitters to reshare the Papyrus Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch from a couple of years back. As a sketch it is a good laugh, and there’s a few really great moments — Gosling in a conversation…