The heads of design across government are starting a new initiative to make our work more transparent and open. We want to share what we are doing with designers in government and open a dialog between designers and the design leadership.
How can designers advocate for change without alienating our stakeholders? Meet the trusted agitator.
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In this blog post, we give an overview of the design recruitment process and what to expect once you’ve applied for a job.
...members sharing work on and discussing service standards, service assurance and end-to-end service design case studies. Community members from Argentina, Norway and the Netherlands—Pablo Fernandez Vallejo, Tone Dalen, Synniva Larsen,...
Many designers in government either began, or have had extensive careers, in the private sector before joining the Civil Service. In this blog post, they share some of the differences they observed.
In Cabinet Office, we are looking for designers to join us and work on services that matter and are genuinely user-centred.
...cross-government heads of design, we established cross-government design objectives for community members to add to their performance objectives, such as contributing to the GOV.UK Design System or becoming a design...
...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...
From 2016 to 2020 the Government Digital Service (GDS) user-centred design (UCD) communities team worked to advocate for user-centred design in government, increase the UCD capability of the public sector...
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