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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...
In this blog post, senior service designer Alex Lee documents the design decisions that helped a team deliver an emergency service in just 34 days.
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...
At the Government Digital Service, designers work with multidisciplinary product teams. Reflecting on his years of experience, designer Chris Hill-Scott describes the 3 things teams need from him: making things visible, making real things, making things make sense.
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.
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...
There is a new community of practice for anyone working on services that collect, analyse, visualise and publish data and applying a user-centred lens to them. This blog post introduces the community and describes its purpose, code of conduct, and the areas it will focus on.
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