As ever with our guest posts I learnt so much from editing it. Not least that doctors spend 13.5 million hours a year waiting for their computers to load. Which is equivalent to 8000 additional doctors worth of time.

A few things to fix before we get on to AI...

Computers, childcare and public works🧸🏗️

Molly and me at dxw have got our FDR vibes on - how fixing the plumbing hasn’t gone away in government.

dxw.com/2024/01/there-…

This is one reason why so many big procurements go wrong. Reputational concerns override practical ones.

Anyone here rebranded the gov.uk Prototype Kit to look like a gov.wales service? I’m working on a new service and looking for an open GitHub repo to copy.

Maybe Tim Paul, Joe Lanman know people.

Hoping you're not working on something with 'Horizon' in the name 😬

Lets swap 'Horizon' for 'Fujitsu' when referring to #PostOfficeScandal .

Like how everyone calls the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill the 'BP oil spill'.

Describe who is responsible, not the object involved.

Using Microsoft Teams for the first time in three years. Still the same; hard to use or just doesn't work.

Both reassured and terrified this is the same company leading the proliferation of AI.

And we’re all still paying for the ruddy thing.

£3.74 per capita. Bargain.

How many public sector IT contracts have Fujitsu UK been awarded since the #PostOfficeScandal broke years back?

Strong argument for companies being struck off / banned from providing public services when their software does serious harm.

Hoping 2024 will see the birth of some exciting new public institutions.

Thinking of GDS and the ODI coming about from the last big change of government.

Harry Potter with nunchucks.

Solid Boxing Day sighting while out at the park with our little one.

It's dry AF, but the ability to chair a meeting well and check everyone is clear on the next steps and who's doing them, is so underrated. Definitely one I'd like to get a heap better at.

In 2008 and 2013 I at first resisted the need to learn 3D modelling and coding to do (physical) product design and interaction design, respectively.

Starting to move past that reluctance with learning how to use AI/ML/LMM to do design

Excited for our dxw design team time tomorrow:

- Demo of gov.uk/forms
- Prompting AI to design gov.uk pages

Topic of discussion: What design skills will matter as interaction design becomes more automated?

Came across some retro web while looking for a rescue dog - cavalierrescue.co.uk

Now all I can do is think how to crowbar some 'cav-nav' into the next website I work on 🐶

Made an Alan Partridge doll as part of a summer festival costume and it’s unwittingly become one of our baby’s fav toys 🫣

DMs are open if you'd like to find out more before applying.

(Although not sure anyone is left on Twitter / X)