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Accidental designer

July 20, 2012 – 3:22 pm

Despite my advertising myself as a front-end developer, writing a lot of HTML and JS, I find my most productive days taken up considering and designing digital products and services, ideally with data and evidence. I enjoy it a lot, but it as left me with a bit of a “am I a developer or [...]

By Frances | Also posted in Design, Web Dev | Tagged career, designer, gds, govuk, jobs, user experience | Comments (6)

Working for the government

August 21, 2011 – 3:59 pm

My soon-to-be-colleague, Gareth, reminded me via props that I haven’t mentioned that I’m switching jobs. From Monday, I’m going to work for the government! Having been impressed with alphagov earlier this year, I was more than happy to get onboard when the offer came up to work on the next phase of the project with [...]

By Frances | Also posted in Web Dev | Tagged alphagov, career, govuk, jobs | Comments (2)

The Moon-on-a-Stick ToDo Wishlist

February 11, 2011 – 9:48 am

I rhetorically asked on Twitter yesterday if there was a better way to manage my todo lists of scraps of paper, my moleskine, jira and basecamp.  I’m not sure that I made it clear: I’m not looking for a replacement for those. They’re not going away. I need a master-something that can manage the fact [...]

By Frances | Also posted in Web Dev | Tagged halp, poor organisational skills, todo | Comments (2)

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