Weeknotes #30.24
30 weeks of weeknotes and pleased to say that this one is on time :)
It’s a short one today though as this week has mostly been all about usability testing. We’ve done a whopping seven tests of four of the concepts I prototyped last week. It’s been really valuable to get user feedback on the ideas; the positives and the negatives. A lot of it has blurred into one now so I’m definitely looking forward to synthesis next week so I can get everything straight.
From memory, it seemed like there was general a consensus about the ideas that’d work well buuut there was definitely a curveball in some of the sessions later on in the week which will be interesting to unpick.
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Outside of usability stuff, we had a team ‘ways of working’ session, where I’ve given everyone homework to compile a manual of me; a retro where we captured some lessons on how to improve future design sprints; and an ace Made Tech Design CoP where Dan gave a couple of lightning talks that he happened to have in his back pocket — both of which were super fascinating and really well received by the community! What I’m thinking about now; is if I could assign my piece of work a celebrity persona for now, and for who I’d like it to be; who would they be?
Design history
Something I’ve been harping on about is how much value a design sprint will bring and I’ve finally written and published the first entry today — yay!! I’m hoping that I’ll be disciplined enough to keep it up. It should be interesting as I might be doing some co-design soon which will be good to get logged. My medium has been Confluence which… I’m not having the best time with, but it’s doing the job.
Since I’m lacking a photo from this week…
Here is my daylist which makes total sense…
In other news
Planning for the big NZ holiday is going ahead — we’ve now officially booked Pablo a home for the time we’ll be away which is sad to think about, but also a bit of a relief knowing that he’s going to be loved and cared for when we aren’t here.
Warmth, positivity, and good vibes,
Dani S ✌️☮️
