Autor: Martin Jordan

In his first week at Digital Service in 2023, Martin helped run accessibility training, translated an accessibility poster and edited the design skill definitions.

Rather little happened in Martin’s much shorter 34th week at DigitalService before heading into Christmas. However, he still prepared a blog post about the visual communication culture at Digital Service and might have wrapped up recruitment (for this very moment).

Week 33 was another busy one at Digital Service. Martin co-organised and co-ran a delivery offsite day for everyone in the design, engineering and product management profession. He also offered the new accessibility onboarding module for the first time.

In his 32nd week at DigitalService, Martin co-ran a half-day design team get-together and used it to reflect on achievements, review design principles and discuss the next priorities for the discipline.

Martin’s week 31 at the DigitalService was packed with workshops, training and other interactive sessions. He co-ran service design training, a lunch and learn session on the service standard, and welcomed a delegation from Egypt.

In week 29, Martin took a trip to the river Rhine to the city of Boppard to participate in the autumn conference of NExT, the German public sector community of practice network. In his weeknote, he reflects on the community, its formats, topics and the conversations he had at the event.

In his reflections for week 28 at the Digital Service, Martin writes about poster culture, an OECD call he attended and why tiny stickers are good indicators of a healthy culture.

In week 27 at the Digital Service, Martin travelled to London for the ‘Leading Design’ conference. In this week’s note, he digests some of the content, ideas and approaches presented there.

Getting close to finishing his first 6 months at the Digital Service, Martin recaps the last week of October and various capability-related sessions he participated in and co-ran.

Martin was busy helping with the Digital Service’s fellowship programmes closing event that wrapped up the Tech4Germany and Work4Germany projects of 2022. He also participated in a cross-government gathering of people looking after the Federal government’s style guide.