“Have you landed at our airport? I’m not gonna ask you. It’s great!
7 minutes from embarking, through the customs, to the taxi — the experience with the airport is consciously designed.”
– Dawn Lim, Executive Director, DesignSingapore Council
“We have about 400 designers and design-minded people in the city.
We share stories internally.
You need to have beacons.”
– Hanna Harris, Chief Design Officer / City of Helsinki
Martin Jordan
Martin Jordan
As a public servant, I write weekly notes to let people see what I do.
In week 214, I co-presented at the CityLAB Summer Conference on ‘Services that work and build trust’.
I also co-hosted an evening meetup on ‘Money and taxes’, worked on service design training and spoke to Norwegian colleagues.
“We developed a 10-year design master plan for Singapore.
For the first time, we opened this up to the public.
The largest public call was for people adherent to design.
600 people showed up.
We also had 6,000 contributions from the public in a box post.”
– Dawn Lim, DesignSingapore Council
In his week 214 at Digital Service, Martin co-presented at the CityLAB Summer Conference on ‘Services that work and build trust’. He also co-hosted an evening meetup on ‘Money and taxes’, worked on se...
“Everything we do has consequences.
The question is: Is our doing worth the consequences?”
– kicking off #FutureDays
“We are the biggest commissioners of the design in country”
– Hanna Harris, Chief Design Officer, City of Helsinki
On the night train from Berlin to Copenhagen, cause when travelling across the continent, the train is the default.
It seems like the off-season, as the train is almost empty.
Looking forward to attending #FutureDays with @laurenceberry.bsky.social and other #GovDesign folks
“We need to experiment our way forward.”
“What helps us optimise:
Analysis
Planning
Prediction
Scaling
What helps us navigate:
Exploration
Experimentation
Sensemaking
Learning”
—Sara Gry Striegler at #FutureDays #FD26
That was a 2-hour delay, but I arrived in sunny Copenhagen in a good mood and with at least 5.5 hours of sleep.
Ready for #FutureDays activities now.
First up: City scanning across neighbourhoods
