Autor: Martin Jordan

In week 108 at Digital Service, Martin summarised the accessibility work of the previous week in the all-hands session, co-delivered a talk on user-centricity and procurement, participated in a strategy exchange with the Chief of Staff & Strategy, and started preparing content for more new starters.

Week 107 was intensively dense. Martin published a blog post, helped launch an accessibility tool, co-ran an accessibility check for a service team, helped review product designs in the legal space, gave a barcamp talk, built a conference website, and ran a portion of a 5×5 km relay race.

Week 106 at Digital Service involved running introductions for newbies, writing a blog post about accessibility, and preparing further activities for the upcoming Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

In week 105, Martin celebrated two years at Digital Service. He is still putting reflections together in writing but proudly co-presented the work happening around justice services with colleagues from UK Justice Digital. Martin also welcomed two new starters and contributed to creating an accessibility data tool.

Martin supported the federal government’s digital strategy again in week 104 at Digital Service – this time with an input on the Service Standard. He also pitched an article about the standard for a journal, planned upcoming community events, and co-delivered a lunch and learn on presenting well.

With internal and external exchanges on accessibility, the topic was much on Martin’s mind in week 103 at Digital Service. He supported a workshop and discussion with product and transformation managers about accountability for accessibility and also met with the team at the Federal Monitoring Centre for Accessibility.

Martin’s week 102 at Digital Service was packed: He joined the Digital Council of the Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt, wrote short bits on ‘why user research’ and ‘what’s content design’, and helped prepare some vision mock-ups for a justice service portal presentation.

Four new user-centred design people started at Digital Service in Martin’s week 101. He welcomed them with a new format. He also continued interviewing more candidates and opened yet another role. Together with colleagues, he met with state-level experts on the topic to discuss accessibility.

Before the long Easter weekend, Martin joined an engaging strategy discussion round. He also co-ran an accessibility introduction session, planned forthcoming events, and considered leverage points for the Service Standard.