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Arindra Das – Designer, GDS

Shaping your design history: how we got here and what's next

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Behind every service is a rich history of design decisions. Ignacia and Arindra provide insight into how they go about documenting the design history of a product or service.

Starting as a designer in government when you’re working from home

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5 of GDS’s new designers meeting virtually in a video call

GDS’s design team grew since moving to remote working in March. For the new designers, it meant having a different start. In this blog post, 5 of them share their experiences, what it was like and what was challenging.

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