Why and how we create design histories
...of what we’ve designed and why. How our design history began In 2018 we were struggling to document our designs. We started by trying to upload screenshots to Confluence, but...
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Content design is so much more than words
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Jen Staves, Head of Content Design, Posted on:
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Content design, design, multidisciplinary teams
...are part of the user-centred design job family, along with service designers, interaction designers, and user researchers. The bulk of our work will be done with the latter two professions....
How we brought our user-centred design professions closer together
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Jen Staves, Head of Content Design, Posted on:
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Content design, User-centred design
...activity. It was a mix of: 28 user researchers 8 service designers 23 content designers 9 interaction designers 3 policy designers 1 strategic communications specialist 1 research operations specialist We...
Setting our design community objectives
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Jaskiran Kang, Head of Design, Posted on:
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Community of Practice, interaction design, multidisciplinary teams
...template for running online collaborative design review sessions (or crits). The longer term benefits (or outcomes) of these design crits are: increased collaboration across our service and interaction design disciplines...
Being open about our design community and how we recruit
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Jaskiran Kang, Head of Design, Posted on:
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Careers, Community of Practice, design, recruitment
...our designers shared some fascinating insight into their work as members of the DfE design community. Designer, Chris Hewison, shared 6 things he’s learned from working in government: don’t make...
Principles for doing interaction design in DfE
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Anne Chan, senior interaction designer and local design community lead, Posted on:
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Community of Practice, interaction design
...prevent users from making mistakes Make users do less Consider context Design a seamless experience Design with data and design logic Here’s more detail on the principles with good practice...
Show the design culture
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Jaskiran Kang, Head of Design, Posted on:
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Careers, Community of Practice, culture, design
...we would risk our brilliant designers working in silos in their service teams, not linking up with other design colleagues. Our community brings all the service and interaction designers together,...
Better Together: Co-Designing with Local Authorities
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Sarah Thew, Senior User Researcher, Pablo Benvenutto, Herfordshire Local Authority and Thomas Fowler, Dorset Local Authority, Posted on:
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Content design, culture, design, digital inclusion, multidisciplinary teams, professions, research operations, Service design, strategy, user research
...design details, for example: reviewing screen designs & workflows helping design user research commenting on language This involvement makes our work more inclusive and transparent. The group has supported better...
How the User Centred Design Lab has joined policy with delivery
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Tracey Williams Allred, Head of User-Centred Policy Design, Posted on:
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Schools, User-centred design
...lab helped the policy leads set up a team to design policies to boost uptake. Rather than writing a policy for schools to follow, the lab designed a policy based...
Join our Manchester office to design and build services that matter
Here in the DfE Digital office in Manchester we’re growing our team. We’ve been hiring delivery managers, product managers, designers, researchers, content designers and developers to work in multidisciplinary teams....
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