Jacinta Mellenger – Senior service designer, Department for Education

Creating the space for service design

Jacinta Mellenger – Senior service designer, Department for Education and Lindsey Williams – Senior service designer, Department for Education, 4 March 2021 - Service Design

Service design is new as a discipline at the Department for Education. Jacinta Mellenger and Lindsey Williams share how they enabled it in their division.

What it’s like to run a gov design jam

Afsa Akbar – Service designer, NHS Digital, Imran Hussain – Communities of Practice Lead, Defra Digital and Jacinta Mellenger – Senior service designer, Department for Education, 10 January 2020 - Design, Experimental

End of October, public servants from multiple government organisations co-organised Gov Jams in Blackpool, Leeds and London. The hackathon-like events were part of a global event series that took place in 26 cities internationally. In this blog post, 3 organisers share how it worked, what it was like, and how to get involved.

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