30s read – Three redeployees join us – Accessibility testing complete on front-end and listings interface – Waiting on security testing before we can go live – Filling gaps in young people and faith organisations – Developers churning out new features – Data syndication to other services is officially A Thing 3min read This week,Continue reading “Find support services weeknotes 27/11/20”
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Re-Engineering Hackney Content weeknotes 29/04/20
Hackney has a vast number of pdfs across its website and we spent time last week reviewing our options of where to put them. In an ideal world, this content would be in HTML and searchable and we will work with services to advise on this approach going forward. In the meantime, we still needContinue reading “Re-Engineering Hackney Content weeknotes 29/04/20”
Re-engineering Hackney Content weeknotes 08/04/20
On Wednesday, our developer Mo came back for a well-earned rest after his intensive wedding duties in South Africa. He’s since been busy building the ability to link pages and assets within the site, which will make content population much easier. You’d think this feature would be out-of-the-box but we’re finding some curious omissions on theContinue reading “Re-engineering Hackney Content weeknotes 08/04/20”
Product Thinking 27/02/20
Thanks to every for coming to today’s show and tell and for all your interesting questions. And further questions over the delicious food festival. Here are the slides that myself and Marian Andoh presented. Enjoy over a spot of leftovers. In the fridge. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UDcaHJmO6k-lN9yc2D9IbEu-N3n2oSE5zEzKCcwK5r8/edit?usp=sharing
My mini-break in the Town Hall 27/02/20
I’m back from my holiday in the Mayor and Cabinet’s Office! This sojourn into political territory was uncharted for me and I’m pleased to return better informed about the machinations of elected office. I was previously entirely ignorant of the remit of the Office, relying heavily on the West Wing for prep. One of theContinue reading “My mini-break in the Town Hall 27/02/20”
Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 14/01/20
This project continues to throw up a multitude of potential avenues to explore. As part of the DevOps trio of projects at the end of last year (excellently DM-d by Felix Tomlinson), we cleared a load of outstanding bugs that had been, well, bugging us. Plus, the proto-support process that evolved out of the DevOps experimentContinue reading “Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 14/01/20”
Team-building in our glorious parks 07/10/19
Last Thursday, you may have noticed a dearth of relationship managers and delivery managers on the 4th floor. It was probably quieter. There was probably more room in the fridge. It was because we were on staycation! Our day’s volunteering in London Fields with Parks staff saw us renovating benches, attacking weeds, creating loggeries, plantingContinue reading “Team-building in our glorious parks 07/10/19”
Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 22/09/19
This week sees our last big push to the finish with the search, homepage and navigation to complete. In-site search is on the slide as users simply query in Google; however, once users are in the site, they are more likely to use it so it still needs to be effective. We’re kicking off withContinue reading “Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 22/09/19”
Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 14/09/19
It’s been a whirlwind of a week, as it always is when you come back from holiday. We presented a second iteration of Carolina Gaspari’s homepage to Ben Knowles, which incorporated feedback from the wider Comms team and included four versions of the main promo area. Jennifer Riley and Hannah Saunders from the Intranet projectContinue reading “Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 14/09/19”
Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 29/07/19
Sometimes you need to go a bit [cover your ears, children] Waterfall. We’ve unfinished business on the project and the best way to organise it might just be an old-fashioned schedule: Navigation and redirectsSecurityLeft hand navigationHomepageImage blockSearchAccessibility testingEnd to end testing and bug-fixing Quite a list. However, work has already started on each one andContinue reading “Re-engineering Hackney content weeknotes 29/07/19”
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