Kate Shiner

Kate leads the User-Centred Design Lab which is based in the South East of England and South London region and is a new cross-DfE project testing how they design and implement user-centred policy.

Introducing the User Centred Design Lab

Kate Shiner, 26 February 2018 - User-centred design

My name is Kate and I head up the ‘User Centred Design Lab’, a new team based in the South East and South London region at the Department for Education (DfE). We’re working in an agile way to identify opportunities …

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