Kara Kane – Head of Design for Test, Learn and Grow, Cabinet Office

How designers across government are working remotely

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A visual representation of many connected nodes on a computer screen, most of them grouped together in one of five coloured clusters, a headline above the map reads: ‘Prison leavers communities and relationships’

...both facilitators and participants. Running a blueprint mapping session Ignacia Orellana – Senior service designer, Government Digital Service (GDS) Recently, I prepared and facilitated a blueprinting session with the GOV.UK...

User-centred design in local government: where it’s at

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Announcement graphic for Local #govdesign Day on 25 November 2019 at Birmingham Council House from 11 to 5 o’clock; supported by Birmingham City Council

...deeper into the application of service patterns for local government services. Since then, the team has published a prototype of a pattern library for common service patterns across council services....

International Design in Government community autumn update

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Mari Nakano, Design Director at the NYC Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity, presenting in front of a group of people at the International Design in Government Day in Oakland; a poster behind her reads: “The future of government is better design”; the speaker smiles and members of the audience take pictures with their smartphones

...Service, is going to examine how good interaction design can fail in the absence of good content design, Laura Young from GDS will speak about data-informed content and how data...

International Design in Government events this summer

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A poster promoting the International Design in Government Day. It contains a quote from Lou Downe: “The future of government transformation is better design”. The poster also contains the logo of the organisers – Code for America and the International Design in Government community – and the date of the event: 29 May 2019

Recently, we wrote about how the International Design in Government community will get together for multiple events in the US and Europe in 2019. After running the first ever International...

International Design in Government events are going global

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Three posters promoting each location of the International Design in Government Conference. They are almost identical, featuring the conference logo which is a sphere with the words 'International Design in Government" around the circumference, but the backgrounds are different colours - red, white and blue - and feature the logo or name of the organisation running the event

...on 3 events, which will take place around the world. Here’s what we’re doing and how you can get involved. Partnering for global events The International Design in Government Community...

What we learned from running the first International Design in Government Conference

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Chris Govias on stage in front of a room full of people

...to experience(s) from the design community. At times you can feel you are standing all alone with your challenges but here we (are) transparently sharing between each other.' Those who...

International Design in Government Conference - what to expect

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A series of posters for the International Design in Government Conference, listing the 50 countries that are members of the International Design in Government community

...for updates. Here’s what will be happening: 2 days, 3 keynotes, 32 organisations The conference will take place over Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 July across a series of venues...

We’re planning an International Design in Government conference

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A panel of speakers in front of an audience

...GDPR, the EU web accessibility directive, EU Digital Single Gateway regulation, service transformation and design capability building. The conference will also help to meet the Government Transformation Strategy priority to...