Journal

Owned by Laurence Berry
May 31, 2023
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Date

What

6 April

Reviewed Digital Marketplace building blockCreate draft timeline of activities for UI/UX working group

 

Start to draft specs

 

I created a draft roadmap on Mural

 

I reached out to Nico and Farina about the possibility of in-country testing for the specs.

13 April

Redrafted our scoping document

 

Drafted a set of points teams should follow with example standards and blog posts to find out more about each point. 

  • These need to be reviewed and more relevant examples found. 

  • It needs to be clear which standards are a MUST

 

Started a draft pattern design

 

Reviewed work in progress with Dr. Ramkumar and added feedback to the draft. Next step is to simplify the presentation of the content and invite tech people for feedback.

 

19 April

Presented progress to Dr. Ramkumar and Betty

 

Ramkumar pointed us to the example implementations on Gitbook that we can align our patterns to:

Our patterns should consider the needs of 4 or 5 usecases

26 April

Laurence has spoken to Nico about setting up a meeting to discuss testing the guidance with Somalia

 

Better has reviewed the content for the guidance

 

Laurence reviewed the guidance and continued to develop patterns:

 

Finalised pattern for:

  • Start page

  • Consent 

  • Ask users for information

4 May

Laurence spoke to Artun from Sandbox team. Feedback:

 

8 May

Laurence met with Yolanda about the Somalia workshop

 

Yolana said she will review and comment but wants it more about the practicalities of implementing the design system or standard.

11 May

Laurence worked on the next draft of the workshop plan.

 

Laurence invited GovStack people to feedback on point 4 and 5 of the standards.

 

Laurence Invited the Consent bb to give feedback on the next iteration of the consent pattern.

 

Meeting:

15 May

Laurence ran through workshop plan for Somalia with stakeholders and made amends

17 May

Laurence and Artun ran workshop with Somalia in Djibouti, here are the findings

18 May

Weekly meeting with Laurence and Betty

 

Weekly meeting agenda:

5 Debrief on Somalia workshop

5 Updates / blockers / retro

10 Review timeline for next 6 weeks

10 Agree sprint cycle and Review sprint

5 Consider where we could be more open and involve others

 

 

31 May

Laurence met with Jakita a product designer to discuss joining the project to support us develop patterns. Jakita will be helping for the next sprint.