Security, clarity and the style guide
...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...
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...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...
Designing assisted digital with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
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 …
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...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,...
Learning from assessments
We've learnt a lot about assessing services over the last few months. James Kemp, acting Service Manager for passport appointment booking at HM Passport Office, attended one of the early assessments and we asked him to write about the experience. …
Organ donation and A/B testing
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Some user needs are easier to meet than others. It doesn't take much research to confirm that most people searching for 'bank holiday' care most about when they can next...
Digital learning day
A couple of weeks ago, at Manchester TechHub, we held our first digital learning day for the Technology in Business (TiB) Fast Stream; one of the fast stream schemes helping to create digital leaders of the future. The day was …
What about people who aren't online?
...17th July to answer it. Assisted digital workshop at Sprint Alpha Rebecca Kemp and Richard Smith kicked off the workshop by outlining the two projects GDS and departments are working...
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Mike Beaven talks about how GDS has been helping Technology in Business fast streamers learn about coding and design, the beta release of the employment tribunal fee service and the...
The Smart Answer Bug
...check whether any code issues were present in that particular release. The reason behind the second point is a little more subtle. In general, the engagement should be independent of...
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