The Australian Government Digital Transformation Office has opened in Sydney in the new Dr Chau Chak Wing building at UTS. Modeled on the gov.uk design team (and importing some of the leaders from that crew) the DTO has already released a 14-point Digital Service Standard.

This Standard will in time, I believe, become a de facto standard applied to all .gov domains – state and local included – and the cultural sector too, of course.

»  dto.gov.au

+ Digital Service Standard

+ gov.uk Design Principles

... sometimes, is to be wound down. 

“Rather than just a team focused on innovation, it’s now everyone’s job.”

» Nordstrom shrinks Innovation Lab

Fortunately, before winding down, Nordstrom Innovation Lab gave us this hands-down winner diagram that artfully weaves design thinking, lean startup and agile in a meaningful process story.

• Agile Discovers a Solution
• Lean Startup Discovers a Problem
• Design Thinking Discovers Customers
• Lean Discovers Efficiency

+ pureandapplied.tumblr.com/post/112457000165/agile-discovers-a-solution-lean-startup

From 2013 but worth reprising in the context of the above. John Stack, then Head of Digital Transformation at Tate, spoke about the museum’s hub-and-spoke model for digital governance in Museopunks ep #13.

» Digital as a dimension of everything | Museopunks

+ @stacker

Bruce Jeffreys and Jason McDermott have gone next level with their disruptive Dresden Eyewear business (see Finds 32).  

Last night, at the Maker Space in Marrickville, Bruce, Jason and friends launched their Dresden trailer, which will take the business on the road to the remote and regional areas, the festivals, and (my personal favourite) the beaches of Australia. 

» Dresden Eyewear + @dresdenoptics

+ Maker Space

I'm working on a project that has talks in it, and I came across this in my rambles. For the Chomksyists and Kraussists amongst you. 

» Chomsky & Krauss: An Origins Project Dialogue

This also from a while back, but on my mind for its transferable ideas to a factory-related project. "Shot with a DJI Phantom and both a Hero3 Black and an iPhone 5S. Slowed down with Twixtor in After Effects to make up for the glaring lack of a Gimbal." 

» Flying a Drone around The NY Public Library

Just go.

• How people use a GoPro by the eminently followable @instachaaz
• Newtown Festival Dog Show this Sunday.
• Our entrant in the above, Pearl Wiggins, a guide dog puppy and known menace to picnics. 
• GoPro YouTube channel

Sydney design leader Liane Rossler, amongst others, has been collecting Lego to send to Ai Weiwei. The artist had been refused a bulk buy direct from Lego for his new show in Melbourne on political grounds, no less!

From the Guardian

• … but he was swamped with offers from brick-lovers around the world …
• … so he set up Lego collection points (cars that the public can fill) in several global cities

» Ai Weiwei v Lego | Guardian

+ Lego Dr Who set

This fun guide ends on a very powerful and sobering note. Read through for full effect. 

"Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend weight, truth, and power to declarative statements. This absolutist view is flawed, however, because language is an art of nuance. ... As a thought experiment, let’s examine in extremely close detail a set of iterative changes that can be made to a single simple grammatical structure, turning it from a statement taken at face value into one loaded with unrealized implication."

» An interactive guide to ambiguous grammar | McSweeney's

"When someone suggests something terrible that could actually work."

» uxreactions.com + @uxreactions

Speaking of UX – the new Pure and Applied website is open for viewing. 

Props to my crew: creative direction by Jinga Design, Wordpress implementation by CJWeb.

» pureandapplied.net

 

+ Sydney Open was a roaring success last weekend: #sydneyisopen tells the tale.

+ Creative for Sydney Open by our friends at Canvas Group.

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Adrian Wiggins

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Service Design • Digital Strategy • User Experience