Reading Time: 13 minutes The idea: developing a website where people can fill in forms which look like the real ones but simplified to learn and become more confident. This is Jumana Almusawi‘s idea: she contacted me about it back in February on LinkedIn. A lot has happen since my last blog post about… Read More »Improving digital skills – a tool using the GOV.UK prototype kit – part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve gathered these notes a while ago after reading it, but I will start to put my notes from books (or recorded talks for example), as blog posts for me, but also, to be able to share with people who don’t have time to read. Please note: I recommend reading… Read More »Good Services – Book notes
Reading Time: 5 minutes A green doughnut started a big reflection this morning. This wasn’t on my to do list for today. Lately, I’m doing a lot outside work, all super interesting but all competing for my time. A little bit of all this has always been there but it’s growing a lot lately.… Read More »Life outside work
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have a lot of dandelions in the garden, and I thought I’d give Dandelion honey a try. 1 cup of dandelion petals 2 cups of water 1 lime 2 cups of sugar I’ve picked the flower heads and then pull the petals from them. Warning: You’ll get very yellow… Read More »Dandelion honey
Reading Time: 8 minutes About 1 in 7 people in Scotland can’t get online. This is about 800,000 people (more data at the end). There are various reasons: money: can’t afford a device, to pay for broadband/data, or to get the assistive devices they need lives in an area with poor infrastructure lack confidence… Read More »Improving digital skills – building a tool with the GOV.UK prototype kit
Reading Time: < 1 minute These days, you need to make every bag of yeast count! So here is an easy recipe for Hazelnut bread. I use the pizza dough recipe of my bread machine and add about 100g of pieces of hazelnuts once it’s already a bit mixed. 0.5 teaspoon of sugar 1.5 teaspoon… Read More »Hazelnut bread
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 »How to customise the GOV.UK Prototype kit
Reading Time: 5 minutes I chose to create this blog instead of using Medium (and explained it in a previous post) to be more in control, and to provide a better experience for the readers. Things that are important to me: be accessible provide good functionalities avoid tracking and cookies for the reader be… Read More »Making this blog using WordPress – Behind the scenes
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 »Liberating Structures
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 »Beer bread