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Over the past two weeks, the assisted digital project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has evolved from understanding the reasons that older people are either not online at all or are only partially online, to developing ideas for …
Getting user research into agile teams in a way that is timely, relevant and actionable is a challenge that teams the world over are tackling. Working effectively in agile has recently been the driver of some fairly significant changes to …
Here at GDS, agile thinking and techniques inform how we do what we do, this extends from delivering projects, programmes and the GDS portfolio of work. I've been working with a team of people to implement and run an agile …
At the start of the month I went out to Sebastopol, California, for Foo Camp. It was a feast of good conversations; a great opportunity to share and get feedback on the work we're doing at GDS, and to talk …
...have to touch, so when they get a call they can allocate it to a particular topic, and they've recently just had to add a button where you can just...
...assisted digital team - video transcript Rebecca Kemp (Team Leader, Policy, Government Digital Service): At the moment you have a digital service, you might have a paper channel, you might...
...be re-used for policy work. In other words, the principles matched our own aspirations for security policy. We organised a workshop to look at how we could improve things and...
...that I’ll probably just pick out, who are both coming into the user research team. One of them is Teresa Randall; she currently works at DECC, actually; our Department of...
We’ve started a project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design about how assisted digital support can meet the needs of older people. Peter Ziegler is leading the project and is a specialist in design research in older people and …
...recruitment. One of the big things this week, the big milestones, is getting the recruitment hub working to bring new digital talent into government. We’re recruiting all over the place,...
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