{"id":3561,"date":"2026-07-08T17:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:56:49","slug":"weeknote-6-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/weeknote-6-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote 6: is it really that complicated?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bruegel’s Children’s Games (1560) has some lovely detail if you look closely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s a new tech leader in the NHS<\/a> which means whatever he thinks about design, UCD or designers will probably trickle down at some point. I am listening closely to the signs and this week, he said that things were not as a complicated as he was expecting. I thought that was interesting because it reminded me of a 2017 article<\/a> someone reshared recently on instagram:<\/p>\n

At every step and every level there\u2019s an abundance of detail with material consequences. […] The more difficult your mission, the more details there will be that are critical to understand for success. You might hope that these surprising details are irrelevant to your mission, but not so. Some of them will end up being key. […]
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The design work that is done by my colleagues in Digital Screening across 15 different projects is really reliant on the details, the local conditions, the politics of that project, sometimes an individual’s power. It’s going to be hard to communicate the critical role of those details well in a short, digestible way. But we have to try. Because if we want senior stakeholders like Rob to support the work, they have to understand the shape of the work is an accurate reflection of the detail and not an exaggeration or amplification.<\/p>\n

So I’m going to be preparing assets that shed light on the conditions that drive our UCD outputs. Let’s call it ‘design headlines’ instead of ‘stories from the trenches’. My objective is to create digestible tweet-sized statements that can help leaders above me share the value and hint at the complexity of our work. It’ll hopefully be something easy to copy and paste into a deck (because that’s where leaders live) or a newsletter (which colleagues across the whole of the NHS might skim). I’ll figure out pretty quickly if it’s the right format or not. Pretending that detail isn’t there is not an option, but I don’t have to make that the whole story.\u00a0 I’ll report back soon.<\/p>\n

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