Weeknotes w/c 31-01-20
What did I get up to? What have I learnt?
This week I’ve been coordinating the location of our design sprints. We are looking for organisations to host us – we are looking for organisations that work with young people and organisations working in tech to get us out of the office and great our creativity flowing! If you can help, find out more here, or email kathryn.dingle@thinknpc.org
What have I been reading?
This week the Health Foundation reached out about about their Young people’s future health inquiry. This research mirrors the findings of My Best Life across the UK!… Read more “Weeknotes w/c 31-01-20”
Support solutions for young people by hosting us!
Support new digital solutions for young people by hosting our design sprints.
We are working to increase young people’s ability to access youth services. To do this, we need your help. We are on the hunt for someone to host our upcoming design sprints, throughout March and April 2020
What is the project?
My Best Life is an open digital project that aims to:
help young people so they are better able to identify and navigate services available to them.
help the charity sector to improve services or access to services for young people.
help the charity sector to make… Read more “Support solutions for young people by hosting us!”
Weeknotes: w/c 16-12-19
My reflections on the week
Happy December – I am keen to share my reflections each week, so from now on, I will be sharing week notes on the progress of My Best Life.
What did I get up to? What have I learnt?
This week i have been working behind the scenes to ensure our design sprints are run effectively and our partnership is confirmed. We are currently grappling with what type of legal agreement allows us to have both accountability and the flexibility and shared authority across the collaboration.
We started with a memorandum of understanding but felt… Read more “Weeknotes: w/c 16-12-19”
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The unintended consequences of tech solutions
This week I have been doing a lot of thinking about the unintended consequences of UX design and technology. This is something that has come up quite a bit lately. I believe we should think about it when designing anything, but I am particularly geeking out about it around technology.
Design and technology can be really helpful to solve a problem facing users or companies, but often we don’t stop to think about the knock on effects of what this could mean in the future or for others in the system. We should look to preempt the impact of our… Read more “The unintended consequences of tech solutions”
Evaluating user involvement (part 2)
Today I am thinking about evaluating the project again. Our thinking has moved on from my last post, to think about how we evaluate the whole project.
Yesterday, we met with Matt Kepple from Makerble (a consultancy focused on improving your impact through technology), to find out more about their products and if/how My Best Life and Makerble could work together.
Their platforms have the functionality to have shared dashboards across a partnership, with the ability to live update your progress towards your goals and share your learning for each of the goals as you go. We are excited about… Read more “Evaluating user involvement (part 2)”
Using hills in product design
Recently I attended the Eleks Product Design Meetup. The meet up was focused on ‘building value through customer-centricity.’
Marion Summerville, Principal Product Designer at Pivotal Software gave a fantastic presentation on ‘Hills.’ This was a completely new concept for me.
IBM defines a hill as: ‘statements of intent written as meaningful user outcomes. They tell you where to go, not how to get there, empowering teams to explore breakthrough ideas without losing sight of the goal.’
Hills are used by teams to communicate the intention for the project/product. They focus on the outcomes of fixing a ‘problem,’ rather than on… Read more “Using hills in product design”