“June 27 to July 1 — Irises bloom in the time we’ve had so many meetings that don’t matter, and then that’s all they’ve done for the year. Seems like enough.” — Irises bloom: Japan’s 72 seasons can liberate us form our obsession with productivity 10 years is a long…

On digital gardening, challenge function, service, inclusion and data ambiguity — I booked a time weekly in my schedule for personal reflections about the week and recognition of my team. Sometimes, one or the other intention doesn’t get fulfilled, so I finally decided to try weeknotes. This is an experiment. I will use the following structure: Gestures of care What we’ve…

About my lenses I have worked in the User experience field in government for almost 10 years. Every day, I learn how much I don’t know. …

This is a summary, video, and a modified transcript of a talk given at the Open Education Conference in October 2021. Session summary In the public sector, open sharing of learning materials is in its early days of maturity. While in the academic sector open educational resources (OERs) are now an established…

Managing meeting madness — Meetings. I think we all know how we feel about them: the carbs and sugars of the corporate diet (the food metaphor ends here). But really, it’s time they go on a diet. Or we do. I recently did a calendar audit of the past 3 months and realized that…

Part 2/2 — Read part 1: How is your team’s capacity? We did it! This week, I am acting for my Assistant Director and I have been testing out the daily 15 minute capacity check meetings across 3 different teams: Research, Design, and Accessibility. This involves choosing a background before joining the meeting that conceptually represents…

Part 1/2 — Read part 2: Capacity check — reflection Having room to help and reflect = value On a scale of 1–6, 1 being “lots of room to help others” to 6 being “burn out approaching”, how do you feel today? This week, for maybe the second time in 1 full year, I felt like I was in a good…

The core idea behind open government data is a simple one: public data should be a shared resource. It is valuable not only to the government departments that collect it, but also has value for citizens, entrepreneurs, researchers, and other parts of the public sector. - Ways open data is…

Ce que l’on a découvert et ce que l’on a changé — Si vous avez besoin de plus de contexte, lisez un article précédent qui porte sur GCpartage ainsi que sur le lancement du projet de test d’utilisabilité. Vous pouvez également lire cet article en anglais. Dans cet article Commentaires et principaux problèmes liés à l’utilisation Résultats quantitatifs Limitations du test d’utilisabilité Observations finales