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Getting started as a content designer in a product or service team

Posted by: Lucia Whittaker, Posted on: 20 December 2017 - Categories: Content design, People and skills
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...learn prototyping and other design skills at GDS; signing up to the service designers mailing list is a good place to start. If you have any tips for content designers...

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Ten tips for getting the best from workshops

Posted by: Sally Creasey, Posted on: 18 December 2017 - Categories: Ways of working
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Workshops with our department colleagues give us a joint view of our challenges and a shared sense of ownership – but planning and running them is a real skill. To help with your next workshop, we’ve put together our top 10 tips from 6 months of intensive workshopping.

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GDS Academy: sharing with other governments

Posted by: Annette Sweeney, Posted on: 14 December 2017 - Categories: People and skills
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...on its ability to deliver services. In today's world, this means digital services." Australian exchange A representative of the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) team attended the ‘Hands-on agile for...

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Introducing the next chapter of the GDS Story

Posted by: Caroline Nokes, Posted on: 7 December 2017 - Categories: GDS team
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...teams' confidence and skills through a series of accessibility-focused learning opportunities. Ashley Stephens, Programme Director, Government as a Platform Reaching 100 adopters was a significant milestone for Government as a...

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How Government as a Platform is helping to transform the Department for International Trade

Posted by: Michelle Thorp, Posted on: 4 December 2017 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms
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...going live. We’re proud of what we’ve already accomplished and excited about what we’ll do next. We work in an agile way, meaning that we’re committed to evaluating user feedback,...

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Building end-to-end services into GOV.UK

Posted by: Kate Ivey-Williams and Sam Dub - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 30 November 2017 - Categories: Content design, GOV.UK, Transformation
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...build a service journey on GOV.UK. Driving change on the driving page To pilot this work, we looked at some services that we knew a lot about and that we...

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Updating the Data Science Ethical Framework

Posted by: Sarah Gates, Posted on: 27 November 2017 - Categories: Data
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...data to improve services. They are investigating whether they can develop an approach to predicting risk which might enable early intervention. Liz Ridler, Delivery and Evaluation Lead in Public Service...

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How GOV.UK Notify is helping the DVSA remind motorists to renew their MOTs

Posted by: Neil Barlow, Posted on: 16 November 2017 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify
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  DVSA’s MOT reminder service has just passed its beta service assessment. As the name suggests, the service reminds people that they need to have an MOT test for their...

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A user research lab for all of government

Posted by: Jonathan Rodriguez, Posted on: 14 November 2017 - Categories: User research
GDS user research lab

...still have another lab available. We’ve added some new functionality to the user research labs, in response to user needs. Research can now be streamed to both internal and external...

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We’re iterating the Supplier Standard

Posted by: Warren Smith - former Director for the Global Digital Marketplace Programme, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 13 November 2017 - Categories: Digital Marketplace
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...Supplier Standard can ensure that the procurement process allows for balanced judgement between a series of factors, including the service offering itself, the quality of the service, the ethics of...

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