Design

A day in the life of an interaction designer at GDS

Two designers standing and discussing in front of a big screen showing a sequence of GOV.UK screens

At our career events, attendees often ask us what a day in the life of a designer looks like. In this blog post, 3 interaction designers in different career stages are telling.

Moving from the private to the public sector as a designer

A group of young people of different ethnicity at a GDS career event

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

Design trainer Clara Greo in conversation with people attending training

...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...