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  • Weeknotes 1 August, 2025

    I was sick for 3 weeks earlier this year and I’ve found it hard to get back in to a groove with exercising. This week I’ve declared war with my wobbly bits and have been getting back to it in the gym. Apologies for the overshare – this is in a bid to hold myself…

  • Weeknotes 25 July, 2025

    I need coffee and music today, so that’s going to be the order of the day. I’ve switched on the radio and, “Oh my god I’m living the dream!” is belting out of it. That’s not where I’m at RN, but I’ll try and embody it. Maybe after my first cup of jitter juice. This…

  • Weeknotes 18 July, 2025

    I’m keeping today’s post short (I skipped last week’s as I was swimming in the Adriatic sea enjoying my hols). Aside from catching up, this week has looked a bit like this… Sending a UX Writing confidence survey. I send these twice a year to people the business. The results help shape training and other…

  • Weeknotes 4 July, 2025

    Hello again, Friday. I’m going to get straight into what’s gone on this week. Here goes… I facilitated a workshop about UX Writing. This is the one I’ve been working on for a while. It’s taken longer than expected to put together for 2 reasons. One: juggling lots of other tasks at the same time.…

  • Weeknotes 27 June, 2025

    July next week. And yesterday I saw something about 6 months of the year have passed, how will you spend the remaining 6? You could see that as panic inducing. I’m choosing to see it as being intentional about the rest of the year. Panic can stick it. Here’s a peek into this week has…

  • Weeknotes 20 June, 2025

    I’m sure I’ve written before about overloading myself. I’ve put far too much on my plate again and I’ve felt it this sprint. Also, it’s been one of those weeks where lots of things have come up. A week where I’ve had to down tools on planned work and pick up what’s parachuted in. It…

  • Weeknotes 13 June 2025

    Content (of course), conferences (well, one), and conversations is a good summary of this week. I’ll dive straight in to the detail. I updated our content wiki with guidance on inclusive content. We didn’t have a page on this so I’ve made a start. At the moment I’ve covered things leading with curiosity and empathy.…

  • Weeknotes 6 June, 2025

    I’ve been thinking about communicating in ways to get what you want. Someone shouting at me in the park about my dog (I know) got me thinking. Shouting is rarely productive for anyone. Let alone, successful for getting what you want. I tried to share explain kindly with the lady that her dog was part…

  • Weeknotes 30 May, 2025

    There are times in our lives when everything can feel it’s going wrong. I’m in one of those right now. What’s important, at least to me, is that rather than wade in despair, that I take action. A catalogue of things are not turning out as planned. Weirdly, I’m okay with that. After all, I…

  • Weeknotes 23 May, 2025

    Most of the week I’ve been at a kick off in Bulgaria. Our whole product team got together to talk about 2026 and to get our hands dirty vibe coding. It’s been so much fun. The travel back was less fun. There aren’t so many flights from Sofia, or at least not yesterday, so it…

  • Weeknotes 15 May, 2025

    So much has been going on this week. I’ve been packing things in to free up some time for an afternoon off to go to The Great Escape in Brighton. I go every year now. It’s so much fun to have the city you call home filled with music – and still sleep in your…

  • Weeknotes 9 May, 2025

    Focus time (and my patience, as much as I don’t like admitting so) has been in short supply this week. I always have focus time planned in, but this week didn’t go to plan.  I’ve found this frustrating. And I’ve been questioning myself about why it’s been frustrating. From quizzing myself I realised that I’ve…

  • Weeknotes 2 May, 2025

    Hello Friday, you lovely sunny thing. I hope it’s warm where you are too. Here’s a quick run down of how this week has unfolded. Creating a RACI. Between new babies and new starters our business has gone through quite a bit of change on the staff front. Some handovers were light (or didn’t exist).…

  • Weeknotes 25 April, 2025

    Whooooossshhh! This week went FAST. Here’s a quick update on Aligning on processes. Documenting how we’re working with PMMs and sharing it for feedback. Design review of our adding a user journey. Some of it wasn’t making sense so 4 of us got together to pin-point what we need to iterate on. Finished auditing a…

  • Weeknotes 17 April 2025

    Thursday today is technically Friday for lots of us here in the UK thanks to Easter. I’m looking forward to a few days off and some family time. Before that, here’s a summary of the last 4 days. Content auditing, again. It is a large part of my job and this week was no different.…

  • Weeknotes 11 April, 2025

    It was great to back in London this week and hang out with the team. I even had rave lighting in my hotel room. I’m not sure I needed it, but that’s Shoreditch for you. I was in the Big Smoke for a workshop with my extended team. We spent time spotting inefficiencies in our…

  • Weeknotes 4 April, 2025

    Sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. What a week it’s been with that glorious big yellow thing in the sky. Please stay… On to wurk. It’s been a good one chipping away at a few different tasks. I’ve had an intro call to our new research tool Great Question, which I’m looking forward to trying out. Here are…

  • Weeknotes 28 March, 2025

    I’ve been getting back into the swing of things after a couple of weeks off. Monday was a bit tricky – I felt quite discombobulated. It could have been jet lag, but for the first time ever I’d stayed up and only went to bed at a time I would in the UK. That’s what…

  • Weeknotes 28 February, 2025

    At the end of January, I mentioned that I could see Spring on its way. Fast-forward to now and there are lots of crocuses popping up in my local park. I can’t tell you how much I love seeing this. My dog, also on the walks, couldn’t care less. Presenting a content audit at our…

  • Weeknotes 21 February 2025

    Every week, I try to stick to writing my Weeknotes in 30 mins. I went through a phase of taking quite a bit of time on them, and then one week writing them took forevvvvver. My boss sent me Giles Turnbull’s Doing Weeknotes and it inspired me to limit how long I spend on Weeknotes.…