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Ella Dorfman

Ella Dorfman – Senior service designer, UK Home Office

Ella Dorfman worked as a Senior Service Designer at the Government Digital Service before joining the UK Home Office as a Senior Service Designer.

A day in the life of a service designer at GDS

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3 GDS team members looking at a journey map on the wall

In this blog post, 7 service designers on different teams at GDS give some examples of the kind of work they do to help people understand the role at GDS.

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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