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Keeping services alive

What happens after services go live? What happens once large scale digital transformation programmes end?  Sarah and Juliette share what they learned discussing this topic with International Design in Government community.

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Epic win: identifying high-level user needs

Posted by: Amy Whitney, Posted on: 12 December 2014 - Categories: Experimental

Lately, Louise Downe and I have been working with the DVLA to think about what services and user journeys really are, and how we can build teams around them to design and make them. To do that, we have to …

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Incorporating translation into the Home Office Visas exemplar

Posted by: Chris Atherton, Posted on: 26 November 2014 - Categories: Likely to change

This is a guest post from Chris Atherton, a designer working on the Visit visa service for the Home Office. Since June 2014, we've had a fully-translated customer journey in live beta: customers in China applying for Visit visas have …

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Spotted: clever and useful design patterns

Posted by: Ben Terrett, Posted on: 6 November 2014 - Categories: Experimental

...rather than giving you a binary answer and effectively making the decision for you. In a small way it's empowering. It reminded me of this pattern from Google. Search for...

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How designers prototype at GDS

Posted by: Rebecca Cottrell, Posted on: 13 October 2014 - Categories: Experimental

All of the designers at GDS can code or are learning to code. If you’re a designer who has used prototyping tools like Axure for a large part of your professional career, the idea of prototyping in code might be …

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Designing for new and regular users at the same time

Posted by: Tim Paul, Posted on: 8 October 2014 - Categories: Likely to change

At the Rural Payments Agency, we’ve been thinking about how to design services that work well for both new and regular users. The users of the Rural Payments service fall into 2 broad groups: Farmers use the service each year …

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Interaction Designer job in Birmingham

Posted by: Ben Terrett, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Tried & tested

The Insolvency Service are looking for an interaction designer to help with this and other services. They say, "We are building a multi disciplinary team who will create and run...

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We need an interaction designer to help a short project

Posted by: Paul Pod, Posted on: 25 September 2014 - Categories: Uncategorized

...closely with a user researcher to iterate on the prototype before and after user research sessions. The developed prototype will be used as the blueprint for the production website. Ideally...

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The design of government emails

Posted by: Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 4 September 2014 - Categories: Experimental

We are starting to look at the design of emails that the government sends to users and what should be standardised in the service manual. It would be good to get feedback from service managers and designers about what would …

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When will I get my thing?

Posted by: Henry Hadlow, Posted on: 12 August 2014 - Categories: Experimental

I'm working on the performance platform. We're showing data about how government services are doing, to help people who work on government services to improve them. I've been working on a new module to show how long you might have …

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Doing the hard work to make it simple

Posted by: Henry Charge, Posted on: 7 August 2014 - Categories: Experimental

...difficult is where they input the details of their previous jobs. In particular, the start and end dates of those jobs. The majority of our users have just left school...

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