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Kay Dale - Senior Service Designer, GDS

A day in the life of a service designer at GDS

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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.

10 principles for service patterns

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Design patterns are reusable solutions for common problems. In government at the moment there are a number of interaction and content design patterns that are used by service teams across departments. For example, there are patterns for how addresses should …

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