Reflective notes about my week as a Digital Product Designer
After a scorching week here in the UK, here is my weekly reflection☀️
The feeling of the week: curiously content
Things I’ve been working on
Monday started with an internal workshop with the RIVAL team to generate 'How Might We' statements ready for the brainstorming session with the Appsmith team on Tuesday. …
Reflective notes about my week as a Digital Product Designer
Another awesome week down, and I’m really looking forward to the weekend where I can switch off my product design brain and have a bit of a rest 🙏
The feeling of the week: Busy / Tired
Things I’ve been working on
This week was focused on research, which involved me and my coworker Naz speaking to users via zoom and secondary research…
Reflective notes about my week as a Digital Product Designer
I’m sure I’ll say this every week, but seriously, it’s flown by! This can only mean one thing — I’ve had fun right 😉
The feeling of the week: Successful
Things I’ve been working on
It’s a good job I write down a daily checklist of things I need to get done, not only so I can make progress in my…
A reflection on how my first 12 weeks as a Product Design Contractor has gone and what I’ve learnt about myself in that time.
I recently published a weeknote where I realised I’d be contracting for 10 weeks, so thought I’d do an update at the 12-week mark about how the last three months have gone.
Luckily I’ve got a coach who I’m seeing each month and this is helping me acknowledge the key…
Reflective notes about my week as a Digital Product Designer
Another week down — it’s now been 11 weeks I’ve worked as a contractor! Once again, I felt like nothing notably had happened this week, but here we are with a ~5-minute note about my week 👀
The feeling of the week: Proud
Things I’ve been working on
I’ve spent a lot of time wrapping things up and tieing up any…
Trying the Weeknotes format as a way to find my flow again.
My mojo for writing disappeared a month or so ago, and my coach recommended that I try Weeknotes. If you’re not familiar with Weeknotes, Catherine D’Ignazio explained it well when writing for Common Knowledge.
Weeknotes is the practice of publishing a blog, explaining what you’ve been up, generally on a…
As designers, we can easily skip ahead to proposing and designing solutions but to ensure we design the right thing, we need to make sure we speak to the users first.
It’s now been two full weeks working with Rival, a London studio, and our client Appsmith. Rival worked with Appsmith last year and is now working with them again to look at their current product and areas we can improve. …
With Culture becoming the forefront of most tech companies, many are championing the Flat Hierarchy structure in management. But what if this attempt to be more inclusive actually leaves more and more women left out.
Recently I was reading Elizabeth Uviebinené’s latest book titled “The Rest”. This book looks at how we work and how this can affect how we live and impact the greater community. Chapter two looks at business and what businesses could and should do to make work more meaningful. This chapter…
After easing into contracting this week, it was straight into the deep end of work.
It’s the end of my first full week as a contractor, and I’m starting to realise what people mean when they say there aren’t enough hours in the day. This week has made me realise two things:
- I relied a lot on my coworkers when in an agency, and
- Contracting…
Taking the leap into contracting has been a title change, but I didn’t realise it would also mean a significant shift in how I work.
I’m now officially self-employed! 🥳
There ended up being only a day between leaving my full-time role at Inktrap and starting my first contracting role. …
