Relative orbital speeds of the eight planets of the solar system
How fast do the planets orbit the Sun — and how does Earth's speed compare?
Gaz Aston
Writing
2026
What happened to blogging on GOV.UK?
At their peak in 2012–14, GOV.UK's digital and DDaT blogs published hundreds of posts a year. By 2024, most had gone nearly silent.
Does Claude's flat pricing structure exclude users in countries with a lower average income?
How $20/month creates vastly different affordability burdens across countries
The Decline of the Turtle Dove
An interactive visualisation showing the catastrophic 98% decline in UK turtle dove populations from 1994 to 2025, highlighting one of the most dramatic population crashes of any British bird species.
Is the UK getting warmer?
A visualisation comparing UK and global temperature trends from 1884 to 2024, revealing warming of approximately 1.6°C for the UK and 1.2°C globally.
2023
Maybe the real design tool was all the conversation we had along the way (gazaston on medium.com) (opens in a new tab)
Conversation is the most overlooked design tool we have.
2021
Weeknotes, 3rd December 2021
Weeknotes, 26th November 2021
Weeknotes, 5th November 2021
Weeknotes, 22nd October 2021
Weeknotes, 15th October 2021
Weeknotes, 8th October 2021
Weeknotes, 1st October 2021
Weeknotes, 24th September 2021
Weeknotes, 17th September 2021
Weeknotes, 10th September 2021
Weeknotes, 27th August 2021
Weeknotes, 20th August 2021
Weeknotes, 13th August 2021
Weeknotes, 6th August 2021
Weeknotes, 30th July 2021
Weeknotes, 23rd July 2021
Weeknotes, 16th July 2021
Humans of dxw: our Head of Design who wanted to be a musician and a vet (dxw.com) (opens in a new tab)
From being told I wasn't academic enough to be a vet at 14, to music being my everything, to becoming Head of Design at dxw.
Weeknotes, 9th July 2021
Weeknotes, 2nd July 2021
Weeknotes, 25th June 2021
Weeknotes, 18th June 2021
Weeknotes, 11th June 2021
Weeknotes, 4th June 2021
Weeknotes, 28th May 2021
Weeknotes, 21st May 2021
2019
Prototyping for non-designers (dxw.com) (opens in a new tab)
A summer workshop showing people from a variety of digital roles that turning ideas and hypotheses into real and testable things isn't just the realm of designers.
2018
This is how I work… give or take (gazaston on medium.com) (opens in a new tab)
Working collaboratively at dxw digital, describing a typical client work day and how we use Fridays for self-development instead of client work.
2017
How FutureGov made a Slack bot to help us help each other (we-are-futuregov on medium.com) (opens in a new tab)
Creating a Slack bot with natural language processing to make spare hours visible to the team and simplify requesting help from available colleagues.
2014
Myward.me: fast information on local election candidates (we-are-futuregov on medium.com) (opens in a new tab)
A tiny app providing voters with quick access to candidate information in local elections, collecting profiles for just over half of the candidates and receiving over 1,000 unique visitors in two weeks.