Weeknotes 28 October — 1 November 2019

New projects, blogging, data driven decisions and Halloween!

Catherine Malpass
Nov 1 · 2 min read
Happy Halloween!

This week we’ve launched into November already (yikes!). I look around Manchester and already the Christmas markets are being set up in anticipation.

I’ve been back to an almost full week this week, with the exception of a Thursday afternoon off to meet up with my sister and mom, who came to visit me and my partner.

It’s been an energising and motivating week with a new exciting project kick off for me, an upcoming blog post and incorporating more data into decisions at Co-op.

Starting on Co-operate

This week I’ve joined a new product team called Co-operate. I’ll be dividing my time between Health and Co-operate now.

The Co-operate team have been lovely and welcoming and I’m really excited to get stuck in on our new plans and ventures.

Co-operate aims to make it easier for people to come together and make things happen in communities. You can find us here.

Blogging

A few weeks back I did some usability testing with some visually impaired users from the Royal National Institute of the Blind.

This week I’ve been writing up a blog post with a colleague Paul Braddock on our findings and learnings. Watch out for this on the Co-op blog soon!

Data driven decisions

This week has been all about rooting everything in data as far as possible. I’ve delivered some Google Analytics training for a colleague and also set up a data group in the Health Team. Having this allocated time together to interrogate the data will be invaluable to ensure our decisions are data-driven going forward!

That’s all from me this week. Short and sweet. Hope you’ve all had a lovely Halloween!

Catherine Malpass

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Lead User Researcher @coopdigital. Lead Mentor @innovateheruk. Passionate about psychology, sustainable futures and tech philosophy.

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