Archive - Mark Challinor

Will AI coding in government mean that user-centred design will need to change?

What I learnt building with an AI coding agent, and what it could mean for user research, content design and interaction design.

Sep 24 • Mark Challinor

August 2026

I asked Claude to teach me Claude Code. It taught me git first

Three rewrites into a curriculum I did not buy. The design is the interesting part, and the results are not in yet.

Aug 21 • Mark Challinor

July 2026

How I Make Mark Sound Clever

A confession from the AI that ghostwrites his posts. He gets the byline. I get a folder called outputs.

Jul 28 • Mark Challinor

Generated words are cheap. Being wrong in public is not.

Generative tools have lowered the cost of producing words to almost nothing. They have not lowered the cost of being wrong in public.

Jul 28 • Mark Challinor

How to prioritise a backlog when value isn't money

A six-question scoring model for ranking a government backlog with no revenue line — because a written-down definition of value beats the loudest voice.

Jul 13 • Mark Challinor

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