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Harry Vos – Senior product manager, GDS

Help test how we apply the Service Standard to lower volume forms

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Experimental, Likely to change, Service Design, Service Patterns
Sticker-covered laptop plugged into a screen displaying two GOV.UK pages side-by-side: the Service Standard and the search results page for forms, showing 5,665 results

...“simpler, clearer, faster”. In 2019, we dropped “digital” from the name of the Service Standard to extend ambitions from just digital teams to all teams involved in running and improving...

What we are doing to increase equity in the GDS design team

Posted by: and , Posted on: - Categories: Community, Equity
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The GDS design team is not equitable enough. This means some people face more barriers than others in the workplace because of their characteristics or the groups they are a part of. We want to do better. In this blog post, we are sharing what we are doing to increase equity in the team.

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