Schools

How the User Centred Design Lab has joined policy with delivery

Posted by: Tracey Williams Allred, Head of User-Centred Policy Design, Posted on: 11 January 2019 - Categories: Schools, User-centred design

Tracey Williams Allred, our Head of User-Centred Policy Design, writes about what the User Centred Design Lab has been up to, and how it has joined policy and delivery together.

What DfE Digital did in 2018

Posted by: Emma Stace, Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 19 December 2018 - Categories: Content design, Major projects, Schools, Service design, Teaching Vacancies, User-centred design

Emma Stace, DfE's Chief Digital Officer, looks over a productive year in 2018

Using agile methods to help parents choose the right school

Posted by: Victoria Nutbrown, Posted on: 23 November 2017 - Categories: Schools

I recently joined an agile team as Associate Product Manager, looking at School Performance Tables. This is my first real experience of digital and agile ways of working. What does it mean to be part of an agile team? Put simply, …

What we learned on the schools discovery

Posted by: Dan Rider, Posted on: 1 November 2017 - Categories: Schools

Hello. My name’s Dan and I’m a service designer at the Department for Education (DfE). I led the schools discovery – one of two initial discoveries kicked off by Mark O'Neill, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, when he arrived at …