The Web Development Team where I work recently moved to a brand new office building: the EMBL-EBI South Building/ ELIXIR Technical Hub. It is a beautiful building, and will be a great place to work, but it smells a…
Treetop team building retreat
There’s nothing like a couple of away days to improve morale and working relationships in a team. A couple of weeks ago, the web development team took a couple of days to explore “The Way We Work” – and…
Building effective working relationships: new sketchnote
Giving people feedback on their designs/ideas can be a tricky business, requiring tact and clear communication. I recently attended a professional development course on “Building Effective Working Relationships”, which was really helpful in reminding me that building rapport, and…
Bioinformatics in Australia: new sketchnote
EMBL-EBI recently hosted Mark Crowe of QFAB for a talk about Bioinformatics in Australia, which I sketchnoted. It was interesting to hear about the challenges that are faced over there; in particular, the huge distances between cities and the…
Sketchnote: Fiona Castle “My Story”
I attended a women’s breakfast in beautiful barn in Little Chesterford last Saturday. There was a guest speaker: Fiona Castle, wife of the late Roy Castle. I did a sketchnote of her testimony: We had a delicious breakfast, served…
Sketchnotes from UX Cambridge 2013
UX Cambridge 2013 was a great opportunity to sketchnote! The packed schedule got my Muji pens scribbling. Have a look at some of the results here (I’ll put them on Flickr when I get a sec too…) – Enjoy!…