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What you can learn from making data user-centred

Posted by: Kieron Kirkland, Posted on: 31 January 2017 - Categories: Data, User research
The data infrastructure team

...difficult to keep it up to date. Out of date data can lead to a poor service experience. So data specialists advocate fetching data from reliable sources using automated services...

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Designing the register creation process

Posted by: Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS and Tom Hughes - Senior Content Designer, Posted on: 18 October 2016 - Categories: Data
Post-it notes showing end to end service flow

When designing services or creating content, we always start by thinking about user needs. We create registers in the same way.

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Getting from data to registers

Posted by: Ade Adewunmi - former Head of Data Infrastructure, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 11 March 2016 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms
Registers poster featuring list of characteristics available here: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/10/13/the-characteristics-of-a-register/

...linked registers is even better. That’s why every register needs to be designed with the wider ecosystem in mind. The Register Design Authority And that’s the focus of the Register...

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