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Oliver Quinlan
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Researcher, writer, educator, electronic musician. Tech and learning.
User Research at Government Digital Service (GDS), UK Government
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Weeknote 10-5-2024 – Finding new ways
A full week, and it's been nice moving from some torrential rain to warm and sunny weather here in London. There's nothing quite like that point in the year in London when the sun comes out more reliably and it feels like the everyone is finally coming out of the winter and spring into the more open air part of the year.
This week has been another one ful
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Weeknote 2024-05-05 - Getting into the new role
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Weeknote 2024-05-05 – Getting into the new role
First full week in my new role at GDS and it's felt like a busy one. This is partly starting the new role and partly a few other events and things going on, but it's been good to be busy and interesting to continue to get my head around the new remit.
Getting started in the new team
Most of my focus for the week was on continuing to
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Our talk from FormFest is now on YouTube, including a live demo of GOV.UK Forms I did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vADHtLFTjv0&list=PL65XgbSILalUf6CzPkhdd1mdF_WJubns9&index=3
Lessons learned from GOV.UK Forms private beta launch
New blog post on what we've learned from testing online forms with members of the public https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2024/01/12/how-were-making-it-easier-to-access-government-forms-online/
New video:
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations
We live in an incredible age, computers have never been so fast, nor storage so cheap, but it doesn't feel like it, right?
It's not you, computing has been getting worse. And the problem is LAPTOPS.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations
Peter GleickBezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.
The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".
Oblique StrategiesGOV.UK Forms is now open for anyone in central government to try out as we move towards a public beta. https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/11/27/get-involved-with-the-launch-of-early-access-to-gov-uk-forms/
