Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve left my last role at the end of July, and since then, I’ve had what some would call a ‘career gap’, or if you are a bit more positive a ‘career break’. I would call it ‘a pause’. This post is about what I’ve been up to and why… Read More »Career gap / break / pause
Reading Time: 10 minutesMy first time at SDinGOV was in 2019. At the time, I was pretty sure I wanted to be a service designer but never had the role title yet. I would never have thought I’d be one of the speakers one day, but here you go. You can access my… Read More »SDinGOV 2023 – Highlights and experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesI did yes! But what I do during my time off is usually not what others would consider nice or fun, like spending most of my day re-doing my professional journey as a tube map. Mondays I have not been in a office for a long time now, but still… Read More »Did you have a nice weekend?
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis is not a post about Agile ways of working. The title could have been: ‘Oops I did it again’: because yes, I recently resigned. again. This post is about my relationship to work and might be of interest to you if you are considering different ways of working. What… Read More »Ways of working
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn this post, I share the highlights from the sessions I attended. In part 1, I shared separately my experience as a speaker and reflections about online versus in person conferences. This year, I choose to go to some workshops which are longer sessions, so I attended less sessions in… Read More »UX Scotland 2023 – part 2: Highlights
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this post, I share about my experience as a speaker and reflections about online versus in person conferences. In part 2, I share separately highlights from the sessions I attended. In person versus online conference Before lockdown, I attended a few conferences including UX Scotland in 2019, but since… Read More »UX Scotland 2023 – part 1: Experience of it
As a designer, we have more power than we think but don’t always realise it. In this post, I’ve grouped resources to help you take power into account in your design work.
Read More »Resources to understand power in designWhile working on the ‘Practitioner stories‘, we found that storytelling and facilitation were considered the most important skills a service design practitioner should have. I’ve gathered some resources about facilitation in this post.
Read More »Resources about facilitationReading Time: 3 minutesI’m in this nice phase where I’ve left a role and haven’t started the next one yet. My old laptop is packed, waiting to be picked up by a courier and the new one will arrive this week. At this point in time, I don’t have to worry about the… Read More »In between
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy weekend started Friday and we were changing the clocks. With the Twitter takeover, I started wondering if I should leave that space and this prompted a bigger reflexion about how I want to use my time and get informed. Social media, and even Internet were not a thing for… Read More »Changing the clock, getting some time back