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The International Design in Government community is 5 years old!

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...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,...

Moving from the private to the public sector as a designer

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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.

What the user-centred design communities team achieved

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...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...

Take part in “Get Feedback” — weekly remote design crits

5 people taking part in the first Get Feedback remote session on Google Meet

...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...

Reflections on the user-centred design communities team

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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...

Starting as a designer in government when you’re working from home

5 of GDS’s new designers meeting virtually in a video call

GDS’s design team grew since moving to remote working in March. For the new designers, it meant having a different start. In this blog post, 5 of them share their experiences, what it was like and what was challenging.

Designers assemble! The cross-government buddy group pilot

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Working as a designer in government can be a tale of 2 halves when it comes to collaborative working and sharing knowledge. The first is one of working on the...