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.
Category: Weeknote
Week #206 at the Digital Service: Notes for 6–10 April
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.
Week #205 at the Digital Service: Notes for 30 March–3 April
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.
Week #204 at the Digital Service: Notes for 23–27 March
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
Week #203 at the Digital Service: Notes for 16–20 March
In week 203, Martin spent half of it in London. He met with various former colleagues and other curious minds to discuss cross-silo service transformation, the use of AI in service design, and working in the open. He wrote more proposals for talks and a journal.
Week #202 at the Digital Service: Notes for 9–13 March
In week 202 at Digital Service, Martin helped with facilitating a 2-day workshop on service quality criteria with cross-government colleagues. He also wrote conference submissions and discussed new guidance, blog posts and a citizen survey.
Week #201 at the Digital Service: Notes for 2–6 March
Martin kicked off several initiatives during his week #201 at Digital Service, including new guidance, new websites, a support hotline, a blog post, and a white paper. He participated in another Service Standard introduction workshop and attended official events on AI and digital transformation.
Week #200 at the Digital Service: Notes for 23–27 February
Celebrating 200 weeks at Digital Service, Martin advertised a new permanent content designer role. He also handled the paperwork for bringing in a content design freelancer and worked on the user-centred design discipline family.
Week #199 at the Digital Service: Notes for 16–20 February
Martin participated in a full-day citizen workshop on Saturday in week 199 at Digital Service. He also saw some great improvements to servicestandard.gov.de go live.
Week #198 at the Digital Service: Notes for 9–13 February
Martin participated in a federal-level government branding and design workshop in his week 198 at Digital Service. He provided input to the D-Stack consultation process, cleared a white paper, discussed a government trust survey and witnessed great small improvements to the Service Standard website.