Tag: Remote working
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Two months of parenthood
Isobel is our first baby, so it’s difficult to compare having a baby during coronavirus to other times. But it does seem like a strange time to have a baby. There are many disadvantages to the current situation. But there are also some interesting advantages, particularly for me as a father.
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From 40 sets of ideas to one in 20 minutes — A collaboration experiment with the Web Publishing Community — Website and Communications Blog
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Here’s another post I published to my team’s blog over the summer and forgot to link to from here. Back in June, I ran an experiment in mass remote collaboration at our Web Publishing Community. This was, of course, at the height of lockdown, as we were adapting to the new reality of a prolonged […]
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Meeting the challenges of collaborating remotely — Website and Communications Blog
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I realised that while the summer got pretty busy for us, there are a few work blog posts that I haven’t cross-posted here yet. So I will drip-feed them here over the next little while. This first one is from July, where I outlined some of the lessons we have been learning from getting collaborative […]
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How we do user research analysis at the Heritage Fund — Jo Arthur — Doing Service Design at the National Lottery Heritage Fund
A write-up of a brilliant talk Jo Arthur gave at this month’s UX Glasgow event, where she outlined how the National Lottery Heritage Fund analyse user research remotely. I found it super useful, not least because this is exactly what we need to do at my work right now, and I have taken a lot […]
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Meeting the challenges of conducting user research remotely — Website and Communications Blog
The coronavirus outbreak has posed massive challenges for everyone in society. For practitioners of human-centred approaches to design, where face-to-face interaction is often so important to enhancing our understanding, our current requirement to maintain social distancing creates obvious barriers. However, this doesn’t mean our work to ensure we’re meeting people’s needs has to stop. In […]
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I’m in Ikea, where lots of people are buying emergency desks
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I’m in Ikea, where lots of people are buying emergency desks.
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Inventive tips for separating your job from your life when you work from home
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Inventive tips for separating your job from your life when you work from home I don’t work from home, but I still enjoyed this piece on little rituals that help you separate work time from personal time. I’m glad of my 30 minute buffer between home and work. As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t reduce […]
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Tech has a diversity problem — so this designer went to Kentucky
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Tech has a diversity problem — so this designer went to Kentucky I am interested in how, despite the (theoretical) potential of technology improvements to make remote working easier, technology jobs still seem to cluster in particular areas. Design firms and technology firms are heavily concentrated in cities on the west and east coasts, particularly […]