Stéphanie – Blog – About design and more

How to customise the GOV.UK Prototype kit

26th February 202014th March 2020

Reading Time: 8 minutes This article is aimed at people who would like to try using the Prototype kit but are unsure how to do that. You might need a bit of help if you have never used a command window or if you are new to HTML or CSS. You can bookmark this… Read More »

Liberating Structures

8th February 202016th February 2020

Reading Time: 9 minutes This week, I attended a participative event to explore how Liberating Structures can shape Scottish public service change work. It was a really good day, great atmosphere, very relax yet productive. Most participants had been experimenting with Liberating Structures in their work and could share this experience, but it was… Read More »

Beer bread

2nd February 202010th February 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes As this blog is mostly for me to have things ready to share, I might as well add recipes as people often ask me for them. This one is really easy, no bread maker needed. You will need: 660g of flour (simple one, not the self raising type) 1 tea… Read More »

Making the switch from Medium to this blog

19th January 202015th March 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes Experience on Medium as a reader Medium has been really good for me when I started learning more about Design. There were a lot of good articles for beginners level. But lately, I find less and less interesting things there. You can highlight part of an article or make notes. I… Read More »

Self-organisation — How do we give the power back to the people?

26th December 201910th February 2020

Reading Time: 8 minutes From empowering teams at work, to workers taking back control and communities getting together to lead the change they want to see happen. Quite often, you hear/read about a concept somewhere, and then it keeps popping up elsewhere. Recently, for me, it was about people self-organising to reach their goals.… Read More »

Simple tips to test a website and potential changes using Chrome DevTools

9th December 201910th February 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutes Even if you don’t know how to code. DevTools are initially for developers but you can do lots of quick tests and changes with it. Even if you don’t know how to code. Don’t worry, you won’t break anything. This is something I often use to do some quick changes… Read More »

Applying for EU settled status – part 3

24th November 201910th February 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutes About applying as a child. My children, like me, have been in Scotland since 2005, they are all students just now, so could stay using their student status at the moment, but should apply before December 2020, if they want to stay after their studies. They can apply using me… Read More »

Applying for EU settled status – part 2

23rd November 201910th February 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes This time, I’ll tell you how you get the news and what to do to prove your status to someone…. part 3 will be how fun it is to apply for a child. Timeline May 2005: move from France to Scotland June 2016: Brexit referendum March 2017: Article 50 is triggered January… Read More »

Tube Map — Make your own

19th November 201910th February 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes A while ago, I saw Sanjay Poyzer’s journey to become a service designer. I decided to use the same idea to map my professional journey for LinkedIn. I didn’t have any fancy software, so I used draw.io as it’s free. Draw.io is not the easiest tool but the result is good once you get used to… Read More »