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…