Progressing international design discourse in Helsinki, Amsterdam and beyond
After the success of the Helsinki Conference we’re preparing our next events for 2025. First off is the User Needs First International Conference in Amsterdam in April.
After the success of the Helsinki Conference we’re preparing our next events for 2025. First off is the User Needs First International Conference in Amsterdam in April.
How and why heads of design across government came together to update the design skills in the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
The International Design in Government community is getting together in person this year for workshops and a conference in Helsinki in October.
The International Design in Government ran the first ever 24-hour conference showcasing global public sector service transformation. Find out what the community is up to next!
The International Design in Government continues to grow and convene — and we’re bigger than ever before. We have over 3,500 members on Slack and regularly have 40 to 50 people joining our calls. The last time we blogged, we …
...around the world to support them on their digital transformation agendas, taking a peer to peer approach and learning valuable insights that also help GDS progress. The team, along with...
...50 attendees “Service design in practice” was run 6 times with about 90 attendees “Cross-government peer critique day” was run approximately 10 times with about 100 attendees “User research ethics...
...Feedback sessions are designed to help people who work on service design, interaction design, graphic design, content design and tech writing work to get feedback from colleagues across government and...
...community Communities are fluid and always changing based on the members that come and go. Communities exist and flourish because of community members—people get involved in communities related to their...
...actively engaging them in a systems-mapping process. We lacked experience in timing remote workshops. We had carefully planned the agenda using the pomodoro technique: 25 minute chunks of activity with...
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