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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 1d

Weeknotes

- directorate away day
- gov mission work
- other significant things done
- bookmarks - read these again

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Weeknotes Friday 10 October

Weeknotes Friday 10 October Directorate away day Gov mission Other important things Bookmarks - refer back to these Introduction Short week in many ways, an away day in Sheffield meant a full day...

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 5d

"AI may be giving you a million prototypes, but if you listen, AI is telling you in quite a painful way that being able to get feedback on your artefacts is much, much more important than the artefacts themselves."

Much hard-earned test and learn wisdom in this post from @duncanjbrown.com

Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com · 7d

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Team dynamics after AI

Small giants and real giants

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 7d

Hat tip to @romdav.bsky.social for sending me the article link this afternoon for AI prompt led gov prototyping.

Great end to a good week.

Cheers Ro.

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 7d

Weeknotes

- noodling forward with AI assistance making map components
- gov mission work - alpha momentum builds
- bookmarks. Exciting late entry prompt based gov prototypes

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Weeknotes Friday 03 October

Weeknotes Friday 26 September Map component for prototype kit Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Map component for gov.uk prototype kit More noodling with ChatGPT and Claude.Ai assistance t...

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 9d

The very uncharitable profits of JustGiving which takes fees, a cut of gift aid, and then asks donors for a tip! bit.ly/4nzZpDV much better to give directly to the charity, but if you do use JG always set tip to zero. But you can’t stop it snaffling some of the Gift Aid

JustGiving pays £25.8m dividend to American owner

The charity platform made the payment to the Nasdaq-listed Blackbaud after revenues rose by 9.7 per cent to £64.5m

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats. Great news.
And loving your weeknotes(s)

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 14d

Weeknotes

- trying to make a map component for the prototype kit, AI helped. I'm stuck!

- efficient land registration/ future

- gov missions work

- things worth reading again.

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Weeknotes Friday 26 September

Weeknotes Friday 26 September Map component for prototype kit Efficient land registration Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Map component for gov.uk prototype kit I'm not a coder! Well I ...

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 18d

Accessibility design annotations are only useful if everyone understands them.

Our latest blog post by @craigabbott.co.uk explores how shared language can help different teams avoid accessibility issues.

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#Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #SustainableAccessibility

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Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social · 19d

We're running Intro to Service design in Government training online this week and next - it might be the last time we run it for while

There's a few tickets left, so grab yours now if you'd like to join Ignacia Orellana and I on the course.

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Buy tickets – Introduction to service design in Government: remote training course (£600 ex VAT) - Sept 2025 – Zoom

Introduction to service design in Government: remote training course (£600 ex VAT) - Sept 2025 – Zoom, Thu 25 Sep 2025 - Fri 3 Oct 2025 - Where: Online, on Zoom This is an introductory course into ser...

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 21d

Weeknotes

Short. Not much to say. Sick most of week.

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Weeknotes Friday 19 September

Weeknotes Friday 19 September DDaT Capability pay framework Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Intro Sick. Bad cold. Sure I picked it up travelling for work last week as started to feel i...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27d

Today would be a very good day for the UK govt to delete its accounts on X.

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · 29d

Weeknotes

- Gov mission alpha work.
- Conceptual land and property services.
- interaction design disciple and community session.

We'll be hiring soon - two interaction designers.

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Weeknotes Friday 12 September

Weeknotes Friday 12 September Conceptual services Gov mission Miscellaneous… Bookmarks - refer back to these Intro This weeks and last weeks, I've made the weeknote available while I'm writing it. ...

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · Sep 3

Love this idea from @bm.wel.by - could be a relatively easy quality-of-life policy win if done correctly:

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Under our noses; in the air around us - bmwelby's blog

GovWifi works every day for officials; CivWifi could do the same for citizens, knitting public services and public lives a little closer together.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · Sep 5

Liz Kendall (new DSIT Minister) opposing the sell off of land registry data is hopefully an indication of how she might feel about the PAF...

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · Sep 5

Weeknotes

Platformland activity club, 1st chapter show and tell what we made.

Gov mission, ideate widely, but the delivery pressure builds

Bookmarks - found some lovely things shared here this week

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Weeknotes Friday 5 September

Weeknotes Friday 5 September Platformland - chapter 1 and 2 Gov mission Bookmarks - refer back to these Intro Where did the long summer days go? It's all too fast. Did my best yet this year to try ...

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · Sep 4

Or made worse for its users in order to save operational costs - government.

Also enshittification happens when organisations don't maintain the service they built. The deliberate decision to leave it slowly decaying. (It's delivered then left)

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · Aug 29

Weeknotes

On leave this week, but re-read platformland ch1 and 2.

And bookmarked some good articles/blogs from people here, to re-read later

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Weeknotes Friday 29 August

Weeknotes Friday 29 August Platformland - chapter 1 and 2 AI - smashing magazine meeting Bookmarks - refer back to these Intro On leave this week, so I didn't commit myself to writing a weeknote. T...

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · Aug 28

**Jobs**

Dear Bluesky folks, we are looking for more folks to join us at IF.

Product manager with AI expertise
ML engineer
Design engineer

If you’re interested in working at the intersection of genAI and trust, please get in touch with me & help me share! A mix of perm and freelance

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · Aug 21

Come and join us to work on some VERY interesting projects that will change the lives of millions of people around the world, with a great team, who like to work hard and have fun too

tally.so/r/mZXV6e

Yellow background, black text. Reads 'we're looking for creative and ML technologists to join our network'.

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · Aug 27

Services should be designed around users, not an org chart.

Best posterisable phrase I've yet seen for Conway's law.

Chapter 2 of Platformland - complexity simplified.
by Richard Pope.
anatomyofpublicservices.com

Each time I read a bit it I think of something new.

Platformland - an anatomy of next generation public services

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Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm giving away the last few copies of my book, from the early print runs in 2021/22. Email me if you'd like one! Details here: gilest.org/notes/free-b...

gilest.org: Free copies of my book for charities

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

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hindsightery.bsky.social @hindsightery.bsky.social · Aug 26

4pm UK time. Tomorrow

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Smashing Meets — Friendly, inclusive, practical event for web designers and developers. — Meets AI 2025 — August 27, 2025

Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 8–11am PDT / 5–8pm CET, we are hosting a new edition of our online community event Smashing Meets. In this Meets we're hosting 3 amazing speakers who will talk about AI. ho...

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Alex Torrance @alextorrance.co.uk · Aug 26

Should departments only ever publish content on GOV.UK?

What happens when the content they want to publish isn't guidance and doesn't fit the GOV.UK proposition?

What should GDS's position be on departments creating their own websites?

Read my blog post about it

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Websites beyond the GOV.UK proposition - TPXimpact

Departments are creating websites outside the main GOV.UK proposition, risking user trust. We explore why new GDS guidance on domains and branding is now essential.

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Ralph @ralphhawkins.bsky.social · Aug 26

Week note – transformation is about taking responsibility

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From the air – Ralph Hawkins

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