Autor: Martin Jordan

In his week 149 at Digital Service, the DIN specification underpinning the updated Service Standard for the German government was published. Martin co-ran a meetup on ‘Better voting, better democracy’. He also started planning out the upcoming Service Gazette.

At the end of his week 148 at Digital Service, Martin observed the US counterpart unit 18F getting erased while building on some of their work just days before. He also prepared for the next meetup on ‘Better voting, better democracy’.

The week before the general election in Germany, Martin contributed an article to Süddeutsche Zeitung Dossier comparing current developments in the UK and the US, reflecting on what Germany’s new government can learn from it. He also worked on objectives for the first six months and how the updated Service Standard should look.

Week 146 at Digital Service allowed Martin to co-run segments of the Introduction to Service Design training after a 1-year break. Martin also had the chance to talk about user-centred design during a gathering of the Digital Council of the Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt.

In week 145, Martin worked on a skill framework for content design, sketched future Service Standard touchpoints and dwelled on the polar opposite approaches to digital government that the UK and US currently offer.

Martin participated in Demo Day in his week 144 at Digital Service. He also joined the final working session for DIN SPEC 66336, in which the foundation of the updated Service Standard was passed.

In week 142 at Digital Service, Martin participated in an offsite with his head of delivery colleagues. He also offered an inspirational outlook for the user research practice at Digital Service. Martin also got a blog post published and worked on another plus other submissions.

Martin’s first working week of 2025 was a bit rocky. He spent time with staffing, ran a workshop with talent acquisition colleagues and got a podcast with a conversation about his work published.

Martin spent the last days of 2024 and the first few days of 2025 on vacation. Before returning to work, he wrote 25 hopes for 2025. They come in various sizes.