Or perhaps: not all greengrocer's

Certainly feels like we're all working in the sun today 😂

Cheaper by the 24

I think you might be in the very small part of the venn diagram of people who squeeze everything from every tube and people who care about best before dates 😁

Are You an Accidental Design Saboteur? (According to the CIA) As a design leadership coach, I work with a lot of incredibly thoughtful designers. They care deeply about their craft. They want to…

Check out the full piece here:
Are you an Accidental Design Saboteur? (According to the CIA)
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AI therapy chatbots: what they mean for trauma-informed services Why the Dartmouth “Therabot” trial should make us rethink how we support victims of sexual assault, domestic abuse and other trauma

My latest piece explores the practical applications and genuine risks of AI in trauma support. Because ultimately, the measure of trauma-informed services isn't who or what provides them. It's whether they help survivors recover.
#AIEthics #TraumaInformedDesign #DigitalTransformation #VictimSupport

A potential quiz question for an extremely niche type of Whitehall basement quiz 😂

Internet of Public Service Jobs - Test/Learn/Grow This is a special edition supporting the Cabinet Office's Test, Learn and Grow team with their recruitment campaign. I have nothing to do with the team in any capacity and nobody asked me to do it but...

A special edition of my newsletter focused on the Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team vacancies (and principles).

@karakane-kk.bsky.social

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GDS is hiring a senior content designer to work on the Service Standard and Service Manual.

£56,070 - £70,219

Deadline end of Wednesday.

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#govdesign

Doesn't trust have relevance in two ways. One in the sense of people feeling like the state helps them or surveils them. The second in the sense of government services contributing to people's overall trust in democracy. The experience of government matters

In the past I have used a personal kanban board or an excel version of a set of lists under different headings (e.g Today, back burner, to do, come back to next week)

Anyone pledging that government digital services should be as good as the private sector should know that I've spent less than 5 mins successfully ordering a new driving licence and so far about 15 trying and failing to update my travel insurance policy

The Death of “Deliverism” Economic policy success isn't enough. We need a more holistic approach to addressing people’s fears and anxieties.

Loads of food for thought in this article about political 'delivery' and political narrative, including the chronically under-discussed issue of whether people feel basically happy
democracyjournal.org/arguments/th...

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Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with? The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …

My thoughts from yesterday's hoo ha at the AI Action Summit for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social (Very happy for this to be mistaken as a slightly misty-eyed application for French citizenship) blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Looks like a great event, hope there is some emphatic condemnation of female-coded ai assistants

🤔 The 🇩🇰 government asked us: how can democratic control over tech giants be strengthened?

We - the government's expert group on tech giants - outline 7️⃣ principles and a set of guidelines for tackling economic, democratic, and security vulnerabilities:

Had no idea this existed! Can you email me to discuss this? Alice.goldman@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk

At GDS for launch of the digital government blueprint. Will try and live post on this thread 🧵

Wonder what % of people's first choice starburst and fruit pastel is the same. Green FP< purple SB < but purple FP < green SB in my order of preference

image text says: there are people who only want to see things so they can be seen seeing things. ithoughtabouttthatalot.com

In 2024, I thought a lot about TikTok tourism

www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/tiktok-...

Went to the speech this morning. A few thoughts. TL;DR - I thought it was really good, but of course lots of tricky challenges to work through. 🧵

Made this starter pack of #OneTeamGov people, working together to radically reform the public sector through practical action.

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Who else is here making public service better?

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Have you ever slipped your driver’s licence into your phone case and thought, ‘there must be a better way?’ Lost your passport on a night out?

Do topics like AI deepfakes, biometrics, wallets, age verification and inclusion interest you?

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Perhaps that tells us something about the longevity of books versus the fleeting nature of social media. Or perhaps that book will have a very short lifespan before it gets given to a charity shop!

📢 Opinions please! What do we call it in #servicedesign when we create services that solve a whole problem for users? The action of taking what's been set up separately and collecting it all into a new service that doesn't finish by sending you elsewhere. I dislike "integrated", so corporate!

Atika’s update #1 Hi, I’m Atika and I have just started at Luton Council as the Director of Digital, Data and Technology. Being local to Luton, it’s a role I am passionately ambitious about. As it’s my first week I wan...

We need more digital leaders in local government starting their new jobs in this kind of way: luton.localgov.blog/2024/11/22/a...

Those are indeed gaps. So this sounds good.

What a chart.
www.economist.com/interactive/...