Category: Weeknote

In his week 214 at Digital Service, Martin co-presented at the CityLAB Summer Conference on ‘Services that work and build trust’. He also co-hosted an evening meetup on ‘Money and taxes’, worked on service design training and spoke to Norwegian colleagues.

In a packed week, Martin supported Global Accessibility Awareness Day activities. He published a new blog post on progress in accessibility. He also witnessed the launch of a new resource and the extension of a tool. On Sunday, he also joined UX Camp Europe to give a talk.

Martin worked a shorter week due to a public holiday, but then used that day to meet with a colleague in Latvia to compare notes. He also interviewed more candidates, made staffing decisions, and worked on a new blog post on accessibility efforts.

Martin celebrated 4 years at Digital Service. He also continued interviewing candidates, preparing new roles, planning May and June events and participated in an open exchange with CTO Erik.

In his week 209, Martin recorded an accessibility podcast, participated in concept testing sessions for the Service Standard and met a UX designer from the State Pension provider. He also ran into colleagues in the public sector with strong views on government branding – some demanding greater boldness, others purposeful blandness.

Martin spent 3 days in Brussels attending PolyFutures, an event organised by the European Commission, during his week 208 at Digital Service. He also attended a jobs-to-be-done reunion meetup and spent more time writing articles.

In week 207, Martin discussed AI to speed up service delivery and planned Global Accessibility Awareness Day. He also travelled to Brussels to attend the PolyFutures event next week.

Martin wrote good parts of a blog post on Digital Service’s delivery principles in week 209. He collaborated on various websites in the making, and he wrote another service design conference pitch.

Martin’s week 205 at Digital Service also marked 10 years in the public sector. During the week, he sketched a design pattern, interviewed more content designers, and discussed a German version of the GOV.UK Prototype Kit.

Martin gave a talk about good digital governance to members of parliament of the Kingdom of Bhutan. He also co-hosted an open meetup on the future of the welfare state, and he co-ran a workshop on designing services around life events