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Recent Weeknotes
Blog style notes and reflections on public sector design, product development, and research.
Seventh NHS Weeknote
This week has been focussed on modelling the data flows and trying to reverse engineer some of the service logic working backwards from the existing DARS prototype and the access that I have got to...
Sixth NHS Weeknote
This week has been focussed on what is called the 'registration' part of the NHS Secure Data Service.
Fifth NHS Weeknote
This week a lot of my work has, from a variety of different directions, coalesced around an analysis of the navigation patterns on the old NHS Digital website, where the Secure Data Environment...
Fourth NHS Weeknote
This week has involved some user research, exploring the Expression of Interest Form and user onboarding flow for the NHS Secure Data Environment service that I am currently working on.
Third NHS Weeknote
This week began on Monday with my 1:1 and following that some time completing a little more mandatory training.
Second NHS Weeknote
This week, whilst continuing to wait for a computer and access to the organisations internal/HR systems, I did some wider reading around NHS patient data flows and the stakeholders, and about the...
Career Timeline
A visual overview of my career spanning industrial design, service design, design research, and digital product development.
Research Updates
Updates and deeper articles and reflections from my (very) part-time PhD in design research at Linköping University.
What I Learned at SCÖ
My employment at the coordination association ends this month. The ESF funding wasn't renewed. Fifteen of us are being made redundant. The PhD continues, technically, but without the industrial...
The Limits of Making Visible
Design theory rests on an assumption so foundational it's rarely examined: that making things visible enables change. Prototypes surface problems. Maps reveal terrain. Visualisations create shared...
The Silent Pivot
In earlier posts, I described what federated learning is, what it would require, and what happened when I tried to map "data science" in this context.
Mapping a Technoimaginary: When There Is No 'As-Is' and the 'To-Be' Doesn't Exist
In previous posts, I've described what federated learning is and what it would actually require. Now I want to describe what happened when I tried to do the most basic thing a designer does when...
What Would Federated Learning Require?
In my earlier posts, I described what federated learning is and reflected on how mission-oriented innovation thinking might apply to this context. Now, a few months into the work, I want to think...
Missions and Federated Learning: Reflections from a Seminar Series
The LiU Design department has been running a seminar series on mission-oriented innovation. I've been attending, trying to connect what I'm learning about federated learning to broader discussions...