Weeknotes #31.24
I’ve had a bit of a rollercoaster of a week. There’s been a significant low but also some highs to celebrate. I would rather not publish that low on the internet, but I’ve had three separate conversations with three people reflecting on the low, where I was able to be open, honest and transparent about how I felt. Something I’ve taken away from this is that when I have needs which aren’t being met, I can politely raise this in a way that doesn’t vilify anyone; and vocalise how I feel and what it is that I need.
To prevent situations like this from happening again, I’m going to plan a workshop (they solve everything, right)? We have a few changes coming so there’s a good opportunity to refresh, turn a new leaf, and set a new precedent of how we’d like to interact in the future.
The good things
There were some positive moves this week. I’ve been synthesising the results from our recent round of usability tests and have seen a couple of ideas emerge which seemed to work for a large majority of users. It’ll be interesting to iterate on these ideas to ensure that they’re great moving forward.
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We’re also in the midst of planning for some co-design workshops to take place for a new integration. I haven’t done co-design with users before so it’s all very exciting stuff and feels like a new challenge :)
The other main thing was a workshop where I joined some other designers to map out our user journey of how we go about meeting user needs; proper meta. We didn’t make it through to the end but we’re going to regroup to pull the info from all our heads together.
In other news
We did an impromptu trip to a pub quiz on Monday. It was a cryptic pub quiz so very unlike others I’ve been to. Instead of answering questions, we were each given a file and tasked with deciphering a range of puzzles to find a code. First team to find the code won! We didn’t actually win — but we were really glad to have solved a few of the puzzles and felt well on the way to cracking the code!
Warmth, positivity, and good vibes,
Dani S ✌️☮️
