Ben Unsworth

@benunsworth.co.uk

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User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.

Back garden of an end terrace house with a 10ft paddling pool in a 20ft wide garden. Two children playing in cold water
A group of runners in front of the Tetbury Goods Shed parkrun sign
Data from air quality sensor showing status as good. Temp 34c humidity 58% CO and VOC low
People running on a trail with a tall man wearing a white bridal gown.
Two children throwing water balloons in a garden.
Conway Hall before it was filled with people for the event.
Me, at a crossing point in the middle of the course. Holding a sign that says run Steve run. Big Ben and Houses of Parliament behind me. Runners coming down onto birdcage walk from the direction of Westminster bridge
Looking out across the main rugby pitch, blue skies
A data screen from Decathlons new frustrating way to measure foot size. After multiple steps you get a data screen that still doesn’t share the key bit of info, your shoe size.
A silver Mini Cooper car on a driveway. It is a cabriolet, which is an excellent choice for about 30 days a year.
Video shows close up of the note on my windscreen, pans out and moves down the side of my vehicle to show a fairly considerable gap before another car parked on the opposite side of the road. It has created a chicane, but one you could drive a bus through.
Printed letter on car windscreen. It reads: “What sort of person parks like this - creating a chicane in a narrow road?? What if a large van wanted to get up the road? Or, God forbid, an emergency vehicle? No 6.”
Google AI summary of repeated sales approaches from the same person, noting my continued non response
Heating oil time series price chart showing move from 60p litre to 125p litre in last month
A 9 year old boy in a black adidas tracksuit with white stripes, worn by the iconic nu metal band KoЯn. He has straggly long blond hair and is glaring through his fringe. He has the ‘fuck you’ attitude of a metal band
Screen shot of the Zoopla app showing filters for a house search that include a new floor area option
Screenshot of the new official parkrun app, showing my details. Mostly as a humblebrag at my impressive collection of 262 parkruns at 105 locations and the pretty quick PB from 15 years ago when I wasn’t fat.
My boy, hair flowing in the wind, running into contact with the rugby ball in his hands.
My POV as a 6ft tall person of a wash basin at a conference venue. To the right of the basin is a blue liquid in a pump dispenser.
The March 2026 issue or Our Bromley, the council magazine delivered to residents in Bromley
My partner using a Singer sewing machine. Unknown date of manufacture, date stamp of conversion to electric operation in 1958
A messy utility room, ceiling with plaster damage, boxed out sections and a blue laminate floor
Shows completed parkruns on Saturday 28 April 2007, Sunday 25 December 2016, Monday 25 December 2017, Tuesday 25 December 2018, Wednesday 25 December 2019, Thursday 25 December 2025 and Friday 25 December 2015
An AI summary in email, reviewing a recent staff newsletter and telling me that I should see my update on designing good services
My boy after the game, quite muddy and very wet.
A view of HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge from London Bridge, at night with everything lit up
A simple flying machine made from a straw and twisted strip of paper. The flying machine is standing and spinning while blown from a fan below
Sign that says Public Health (not IT support). My public health colleagues sit in the same area as my support folks and get lots of interruptions from people who need help.
9 year old boy in a beetlejuice costume
A haiku. It reads: It’s not DNS There’s no way it’s DNS It was DNS
A middle aged man fighting off the decline of bones, tendons and muscles through a high bar squat.
Gravity racer with severe structural damage to the chassis, suspension and wheels.
Video still from a spectator. Gravity racer climbing a grass bank and I hiring spectators.
I was pushing for the first run. My drive would be saved as a final ‘yolo’ with heaviest driver.
My boy in the gravity racer, checking everything before the race start.
My 8 year old dropping in to a quarter pipe, looking steezy as fuck, with my 5 year old in the background.
Jumping from a rock ledge into a plunge pool.
Me, jumping from the limb of a tree into a lake in the alps. Approximately 5m drop.
Someone doing yoga on a terrace. French alps in the background
My partner and our boy in front of IKEA on the outskirts of Dijon.
A Jaffa cake McFlurry
Screen shot of Zoopla search showing an AI generated watercolour of a traditional Victorian cottage
Niwaki hori hori gardening trowel. Also often referred to as a gardening knife, becuase it is a 7" carbon steel blade in the shape of a knife.
Finished project, Astro turf in a rectangular footprint underneath a kids climbing frame and swing.
View over Lords cricket ground from a hospital ward balcony.
Domestique for team Lidl-Trek, Quinn Simmonds, with a Stars and Stripes national champs jersey - handlebar mustache, wrap around shades and a Mississippi mud flap hairstyle.
My boy sat behind a craft stall with some pictures and hand made things for sale
Stephen Wilson Jr playing a unique cover of Stand By Me.
Front of the glass painting
Some half finished reverse glass paintings.
Me pitching a ball in a coconut shy
Running tap into small basin. Exposed pipework in a small wc being renovated
Children playing cricket on a pitch in the countryside
Old pipes with water the in the wrong place for the new sink.
Me and my 4 year old daughter, holding hands walking away from the camera across a field to the start of Junior parkrun
Red green and gold Nike skate shoes. The same colourway as the now defunct NBA team from Seattle
Long tail cargo bike, child and bags on the back, towing a small bike behind.
Bike frame with minimal components fitted.