Vicky Teinaki

@vickytnz
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Kiwi-Brit designer working in UK government. Links-a-plenty, views my own.
LocationWhitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, UK
PronounsShe/her
Websitehttps://vickyteinaki.com
Vicky TeinakiNov 18, 2024
Last week - work and then an agile conference in a cinemaplex! also a lead service designer role at my old work is up on civil service jobs https://medium.vickyteinaki.com/agility-a-weeknote-starting-11-november-2024-6986ea650ef5
Agility (A weeknote, starting 11 November 2024) - Vicky Teinaki - Medium

This has been a week of two halves, with a short working week and then attending an Agile conference in Madrid. It was only a 2 day working week for me. We’re only allowed to access work data in the…

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Vicky TeinakiNov 11, 2024
I cleared my newsletter subs over the weekend https://medium.vickyteinaki.com/values-a-weeknote-starting-4-november-2024-f2d5b894b44e #weeknotes
Values (a weeknote, starting 4 November 2024) - Vicky Teinaki - Medium

This week has been something of a foundational week as I get set up for user research while starting to use the NHS.UK prototype kit (and related ecosystem) for actual project work rather than just…

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Vicky TeinakiNov 5, 2024
Frankie RobertoNov 5, 2024

New website for the NHS Prototype Kit, including new guidance and tutorials: https://prototype-kit.service-manual.nhs.uk

If you work on digital services for the NHS, take a look! Feedback welcome.

Big thanks to @paulrobertlloyd for the illustration and @vickytnz for work on the content! 🙌

NHS.UK prototype kit

Vicky TeinakiNov 4, 2024
Last week was about getting platforms sorted, and learning how to do code for shared projects https://medium.vickyteinaki.com/discipline-a-weeknote-starting-october-28-2024-2617158da162 #weeknotes
Discipline (a weeknote starting October 28 2024) - Vicky Teinaki - Medium

I’ve had a mixed week with the discovery work, mainly because a lot of people have been away between half-term including sickness. A plus was getting access to all of the tooling and setting up some…

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Vicky TeinakiOct 28, 2024
In the last week I've been learning about the conditions of the service I'm working on (and some prototyping) https://link.medium.com/evCfXaiC3Nb #weeknotes
Vicky TeinakiOct 21, 2024
First week at NHSE https://medium.vickyteinaki.com/rediscovery-a-weeknote-starting-14-october-2024-470b0a5fe659
Rediscovery (A weeknote starting 14 October 2024) - Vicky Teinaki - Medium

Hello from NHS England! This is my fifth public sector organisation (or more practically, fifth work email address on the UK Government Digital slack) in nine years. I like to imagine each switch of…

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Vicky TeinakiOct 6, 2024
https://medium.vickyteinaki.com/icebreakers-a-weeknote-starting-30-september-2024-4177e08bddde A week mostly in Helsinki #weeknotes
Icebreakers (A weeknote starting 30 September 2024)

My arrival started with a stomach dropping moment when I thought I’d lost my passports. Thankfully it was a false alarm, but as I pre-emptively researched the worst case scenario, I learned a lot…

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Vicky TeinakiOct 6, 2024
More writeups! this of the #govdesign international design in gov https://www.vickyteinaki.com/blog/international-design-in-government-2024/
International Design in Government 2024

Writeups of the systems track of the international design in government conference 1-2 October 2024.

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Vicky TeinakiOct 1, 2024
I did a quick writeup of key things from SD in Gov (just in time to start taking notes for International Design in Gov conference!) https://www.vickyteinaki.com/blog/service-design-in-government-2024/
Service Design in Government 2024

A quick set of notes from the conference.

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Vicky TeinakiSep 30, 2024
Quick notes from last week before I get into International Design in Government mode https://medium.vickyteinaki.com/protocols-a-weeknote-starting-23-september-2024-c68393d716c6
Protocols (A weeknote starting 23 September 2024) - Vicky Teinaki - Medium

This won’t be the best of a weeknote given I’m writing it on Sunday in Helsinki after a fractured travel route here. So it may be missing a few details. Early this week I was helping some of my team…

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