TTSS: a notebook on life.

My weeks are continuing to be full on. Healthy or not, I do like crazy times at work. The difference is that now, as opposed to a few years back, I make time for breaks (walk the dog, yoga at lunch). I try to fit in time for decompression – even if it’s 5 mins…

I’m keeping it brief this week. I’m short on time and about to fall in a heap. That said, it’s been a really good week and there have been lots of great developments at work. Here’s a snippet of what’s been going on. Moving towards coaching. Last week I talked about changes in the way…

I’m knackered. And I have a shoulder injury that means I can’t box or do weights for a while. This has led to me being rather slovenly – including being lax with my Weeknotes. Tsssk. Crazy calendar times are continuing at work. Here’s a taste of what’s going on. Writing a business case that AI…

Blimey. The last few weeks have been a blurrrrrr – so no Weeknotes. Let’s dive in to what’s been going on. A 3-day design challenge (and 2 days off for a long weekend in Rome) meant that last week was jam packed and really fun. Our design and research team split into 6 teams. The challenge…

I accidentally titled this post 2034. Given it’s already SEPTEMBER, it could just as well be 2034 in the blink of an eye, too. And don’t get me started about the Christmas stuff I’m already seeing. Society, please stop fast-forwarding our lives. That’d be nice, thank you. Soap box dismounted, here’s how this week has…

So, this week has been a good ‘un. Why? I’ll break it down… Monday With the product manager, engineers, and fellow designers we reviewed the end-to-end journey of a project. It was a great reflection exercise. Screen by screen we looked at what we had designed and what went live. And each discipline had the…

Hello, Friday. This week’s been a funny one. Not ‘funny ha ha’, more ‘funny’ as in a little testing. I’m heading to a gig tonight so I’m looking forward to tying up work in a nice bow until next week. Monday. I worked on the content for some new security measures coming in. I took…

Hello, Friday. Pensive is the word I’d use to summarise the last 5 days. My thinking cap is looking somewhat threadbare. Here’s why: Scratching heads together on IA. We’re refreshing our mobile app at work. We have started exploring our current information architecture versus what it might look like. We’ve mapped the existing IA and…

Blimey, Fridays come round quick. A colleague said on Wednesday that their week was dragging. The weeks always go so fast for me, and this one’s been bussssssssssy. I’m pretty exhausted. Here’s just some of what’s happened… Showcasing a ‘single source of truth’ (SSOT) for copy. I took the copy team through the SSOT I’ve…

Swiftly moving on from the lack of my Weeknotes last Friday, here’s this week’s… Culling meetings to create focus time. I’m not afraid to say no to things if I need to, and this week it was meetings. Monday was pretty much back-to-back calls. When I checked to see what Tuesday looked like it was…

Woo. This week’s been somewhat straightforward – I’ll take that. It’s Friday and the sun is shining, so I’ll keep this short. Enjoy the weekend. Continuing onboarding comms. We hit a few snags with this when it was user tested. I’ve been simplifying the content (it was much needed). Hopefully, there’ll be time to test…

A week with not much to write home about. Pleasant enough and progress made on many tasks. Kicking off an IA project for a mobile app. We’re right at the beginning (mostly conversations on who’s doing what and what think the work will look like). There’s not too much to say on this one right…

I’ve had a banger of a week. Loads and loads of good stuff (unfortunately, while having a throbbing, lingering headache). Never mind. Let’s focus on the banging progress. (I know how happy my colleague Soph will be at me using the word “banging”). My bangtastic week (eurghh) has gone something like this: Sketching. And sketching…

I started today at the gym and then with my first sea swim of the year. Anndddd it’s Friday. Can I bottle this “pumped and achieving” vibe, please? (I know I’ll need some in future). Tangent over, here’s how work went this week. Building a reusable copy library. It’s annoying when you can’t find something…

Friday. Already. This week’s felt like I’ve done a lot of stopping and starting. I’ve felt low on mojo so have needed to rest – and I’ve tried my best to roll with that and not feel bad for taking the time. When we need to rest, rest. I’ll try and remember that… I’ve still…

It’s been a week of ups and downs. Some frustrations at the length of time it’s taking to get budget for my team and others for training. And some more due to lack of clarity on current recruitment. That said, I’ve made loads of progress too – transforming my frustrations into healthy actions. And also some…

This week marks 10 weeks of writing Weeknotes. That’s gone fast! So has this week (don’t they all whiz by?). Pricing and packaging content has taken up much of my time this week. It’s been really nice to have a chunky project and to spend some proper time on it rather than flitting from one…

Second week of feeling a bit flat. But hey, that’s life and its ups and downs. I’m cracking on and rolling with the punches. Some great stuff on the go this week, particularly my first point. Let’s go… A whole day uninterrupted by meetings. I love it when this happens as I can really get…

The week ending 7 April was a busy one given I’m publishing it a little late! I did have stuff written down, important stuff, so I’m still posting this even if it is actually these Weeknotes that are from today. Growth, productivity, capacity planning. I’ve spent a lot of time looking into how we can…