Tim Paul

22 Aug 2026 Here’s another post where I wrestle with my ambivalence towards the technology I’m currently working with...

16 May 2026 Geoffrey and Mo, hanging around Highgate Woods Our new Chief AI Officer, Kalbir, recently asked us how AI might be used to drive human flourishing.

Power management # Modules use power.

3 May 2024 Sam Fender and Richard Dawson At the emotional peak of 17 Going Under, Sam Fender (think Springsteen, but Geordie) hollers ‘I see my mother, DWP see a number!’.

17 March 2026 Loops of doom A slightly indulgent post this one, but I promise there's some design-and-AI reflection in the second half.

05 January 2026 I had some free time over Xmas, so I decided to use some of it to see if I could use AI creatively, but hopefully in a way that was safe, sustainable and didn't exploit others.

30 Nov 2025 This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts that explore different ways we could use AI to help us do design and user research in the public sector.

02 July 2025 I’m reading The Golden Road by William Dalrymple at the moment.

02 May 2025 Last year I wrote about a tool I built that uses AI to generate GOV.UK styled web versions of PDF forms.

13 May 2024 I made a little AI experiment recently - a tool that takes an image of a PDF form and generates an equivalent multi-page web version of it.

06 Oct 2024 Way back in March 2024 I ran a 90 minute online workshop as part of Services Week 2024.

06 Oct 2024 (last updated 29 Oct) Recently Jeni Tennison put a shout out on BlueSky asking for ideas on what a future vision for digital government should include (she’s part of an advisory panel that’s working with DSIT to develop this vision).

27 April 2024 I watched a great talk about sustainable AI recently at Services Week 2024.

A GDS Design training day The challenge # After the launch of GOV.UK in 2012, the number of in-house service teams in government started to grow rapidly.

The GOV.‌UK Design System home page The challenge # GOV.UK is the website for UK government services and information - it's managed by the Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the Cabinet Office.

Sketches Wireframes Prototype Live The challenge # From 2001 to 2012 I worked at Transport for London (TfL).

Posters showing highlights from the GDS Transformation Programme The challenge # In January 2013, the UK government gave itself 400 days to transform 25 major services, making them digital by default and simpler, clearer and faster to use.

A GDS Design team meeting in 2020 The challenge # Public sector design teams should reflect the diversity of the population they serve.

Designers in government The challenge # When designers join the government they need equal access to opportunities for career progression, regardless of who they are or which department they are in.