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Oliver Quinlan

Learning, Digital, Education

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How we’re making it easier to access government forms online

An update on my work on GOV.UK Forms, originally published on the GDS blog. We’re making it easier for departments to build digital services here at GDS and we’ve built a tool to make it easy to create online forms for GOV.UK without any specialist digital skills. GOV.UK Forms makes creating an online, accessible form as easy [ ]

Thinking through writing

How I stop-started with journalling

Making something ‘a thing’

Does coining a phrase actually make it less clear?

You’re learning a lot, but is it valuable?

Over the years I’ve realised that one of the strongest things that motivates me is learning new things. Learning is so important for work, but I’ve been taking a long look at how valuable some it is in the longer term. I think many of us feel like as long as we’re learning, we are [ ]

Meaningful objects

I’ve had this small cloth for over ten years. It’s a pretty unremarkable glasses cleaning cloth. I found it again recently, 11 years, 5 jobs, 3 cities after it first came into my possession. I put it on the keyboard of my MacBook Air. The manufacturing tolerances on this computer are so small that when [ ]

Starting at Government Digital Service

It s been getting on for four months now since I started at GDS, so I thought I d share a bit about this move and what I am up to. I d been in my previous organisation for over six years. This is the longest I d ever been in a particular job, although being a young organisation [ ]

The drag of experience

When it's impossible to start from scratch.

You’re so much better at comparing than any other kind of judgement

Learning from contrasts and change

Artificial intelligence won’t solve all our problems

We also need communities.

Do you really know how you use your time?

Some things I learned from tracking my work time.