Weeknotes 22 March 2024 Mar 22 2024April 19, 2024 A double whammy for my #3 and #4 weeknotes. These combined notes cover 11 March to today. It’s been a fortnight of connections, maintenance and steady progress. Content style and CMS editing guide drafted for DACS: this is one of various content services I offer. Excited to be continuing working them, designing further visual arts copyright information for the recently launched new website. Very pleased to connect on LinkedIn with Charlie Fountaine, have been a follower for a while, wonderful posts always – and I particularly celebrated their recent post on maintenance and continuous improvement. Grateful to Caroline Jarrett for pointing me towards Jared Spool’s Beans and Noses article, in the wake of a situation where Sankey’s level 3 diplomacy had to be abandoned, since accessibility and audience reach was at stake… Reconnected with Anastasia Sobova – a brand specialist from Ukraine and incredible person. I worked with Anastasia a couple of years ago on a project helping startups. Her energy/spirit is incredible – look at this can-do attitude, fundraising for drone reconnaissance. Making good progress on recycling local gov service design pattern designs, with help from Andy Bennett at Register Dynamics. Made a plea on LinkedIn for more Heads of Service Design on organisational boards, represented in SMT and becoming CEOs. Spoke out for accessibility: how it’s in the words we use on our sites and for our services and products, as well as the visual design and the interaction points. Great discussions with Jason Grant and Adam Silver on terms relating to cognitive challenges – read the dedicated blog post. I’m migrating my GatherContent articles to the Cake Content website, and will do my best to link to the sites of authors who’re publishing their articles on their sites. Relatedly, clarity sort of gained on the GatherContent blog’s future – it IS shutting down, but will be archived, though only in part as many live articles are being migrated to another platform, and… well, you can find out the intricacies on the Cake Content Consultancy LinkedIn post comments. Sent live a Spring offer on my pathway courses – people can buy both together for half-price, right through until Summer. Also did a spot of upkeep and Spring tidying on my website in general. It’s always satisfying, until the next time you do maintenance, and are shocked at what you previously thought was good to go live. Enjoying French cinemas; my French language level is still basic though (despite taking yoga classes in French) so I stuck to VO English. The acronym use led to an amusing, but potentially money-losing for cinemas, misunderstanding of mine between Voice Over, and the correct – with complete opposite meaning – Version Originale. Others have also been left wondering. Planning a second, and third in the series of ‘Design objet d’week’: next up is dragon drainpipes!
