Links for each UXBristol 2020 Short Talk Last week was UXBristol’s 10th birthday 🎉 The five talks on Friday morning were all excellent and well worth watching, and the great news is they’re available for free over on YouTube. You can watch all 3 hours and 10 minutes in one go, start 17 minutes in to see the Introduction to UXBristol from... More
Task model and service blueprint templates Here’s a task model and service blueprint I made using Google Slides (see speaker notes for further information): Task model with user needs: Complete an ONS survey on behalf of a business (with added service blueprint) Feel free to make a copy and use it for your own work. Let me know if you do,... More
Working week – first week of February in bullet points Last week’s notes (a little late, but here they are): The first week of February saw the start of a new discovery under the Future Farming and Countryside Programme umbrella. Despite my and other people’s efforts to avoid it, it did feel like jumping from one moving train to another. A weekend isn’t long enough to... More
There will never be a Storm In A Teacup A notification on my phone on Saturday read: “BBC News – Storm Ciara to bring severe gales to UK” This headline got me wondering if there will ever be a Storm Gale. And what other names are and aren’t acceptable. According to this Wired article, we’ve been naming storms since 2015, when the UK and... More
What I did at work last week in bullet points I’m still working out how I might do some round-ups, as well as add in some ad hoc thoughts and noticings. These might include tweets and photos I’ve posted which have sparked some interesting reactions. Like in the olden days. In the meantime, some bullet points from work last week: Learning about the Future Farming... More
Maintenance mode (while getting back up and blogging) Tap tap. Is this thing on? It seems to be. As I remember reasons to blog, I also remember I still haven’t found or fixed a couple things: One is a way to share a few bookmarks with my own added comments and tags – like we once did with Delicious. Simon suggested Dan Hon... More
The scenic cycling route from Newport Station to ONS Cycle Route 3463253 – via Bikemap.net – Open Route in Bikemap App This is the scenic cycling route from Newport Station to ONS (and IPO). It runs alongside the River Usk and goes right past the Transporter Bridge. I was lucky enough to work over at ONS for a couple of years which meant commuting... More
Calling time – giving names to eras (I tweeted this last week, and realised it’s the closest thing to a blog post I’ve written for a while, so I thought I’d turn it into one.) We’re entering the twenties. The 2020s. Will they be roaring like a century ago? In Western society the Roaring Twenties was a time of possibility and progress,... More
Google Drawing template: GOV Flow kit I recently made – and have been using – a Google Drawing version of the GOV Flow kit. If you’re involved in designing government services and transactions you might find it useful for mapping out online user flows. It’s based on the excellent Gov Flow kit for Sketch made by Charles Reynolds-Talbot. It’s meant for... More
Blogging on the People Thinking website I’ve started work on a side project with Ben. We’re calling it Participant Discovery. We want to understand what it’s like to be a research participant. We wonder if understanding this will help us design better research. We’re blogging about it over on the People Thinking website. More