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How we do user research in agile teams

Posted by: Leisa Reichelt, Posted on: 30 August 2013 - Categories: GDS team

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 …

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Testing Inside Government at scale

Posted by: Nick Breeze - Lead User Researcher, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 30 January 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

At GDS we realise how important it is to build government services by understanding the needs of the people who use them. One of the most useful ways of doing this is by testing products with end users, and remote …

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