Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Strange (First) Days

    Strange (First) Days

    These are strange days for everyone. Lots of people operating in unusual circumstances. As I’ve written before I have never been a fan of working from home so that alone has been a steep learning curve for me. I’ve got my little ‘office’ set up in my bedroom bay window and I’m getting used to…

  • Micro March (20)

    Today was better than yesterday which was better than the day before. I am on board with that evolution. Had a great chat with Helen at Essex about what my next role looks like. I’m pretty excited to get involved. I’ve seen Neil, Dave, Cate, Kit and Sam (amongst others) move to local gov in…

  • Tour of Duty?

    I was interested to read about this Number 10 meeting with ‘big tech‘. It kind of reminded me of the whole ObamaCare ‘Tiger Team’ thing that basically spawned the USDS. I know I have taken a few pokes at Dominic Cummings but this doesn’t sound like a dreadful plan – the focus on getting talent…

  • Help with our user research…please!

    The Notbinary Alpha team is working with a Government Department to explore how government can best help businesses to navigate the information and support available to them (online). To make sure that we understand businesses’ needs and that we build the right thing for them, we would like to have interviews with a variety of…

  • Enterprise empathy

    There has been a fair amount of talk about the ills of Microsoft Teams and Office365 on the Twitters these last couple of days and like Vicky said it is starting to smack a bit of digital privilege and honestly is coming across as a bit blinkered. Look personally I find both Teams and O365…