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Putting people at the heart of policymaking

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 1 April 2019 - Categories: Agile, User-centred design
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The User Centred Design Lab is rolling out a new service aimed at colleagues and teams in DfE. It uses a lot of the thinking we put into our printed Delivery Book, and applies it in a practical way to real problems, faced by real teams.

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The delivery book - a book to help teams deliver

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 20 February 2019 - Categories: Agile, User-centred design
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For 6 months Andrew Knight's job was to understand what help people needed to deliver things. Their answer was quite simple: they wanted practical help and advice. So to meet their needs, he wrote a really useful book.

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How service ownership works in DfE

Posted by: Rachel Hope, the Deputy Director of teacher services and teachers portfolio, Posted on: 8 February 2019 - Categories: Agile, Service design, User-centred design
In this photo there is a central circle with lots of postits arranged inside and out. These postits cannot be read clearly but they represent different users of a service and the stakeholders involved in the delivery of that service. There are 2 simplified diagrams that explain this photo. The diagrams have alt text and are further down in this post.

With some useful diagrams Rachel Hope, Deputy Director for Teacher Services, explains how the service ownership model is used by multidisciplinary teams in DfE to help them meet their users' needs.

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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
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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.

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Designing a retraining scheme that meets user needs

Posted by: Ian Caplan, Posted on: 20 December 2018 - Categories: National retraining scheme, User-centred design
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Ian Caplan, Programme Director for the national retraining scheme, writes about how the team is designing the service around its users

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What DfE Digital did in 2018

Posted by: Emma Stace, Chief digital technology officer, Posted on: 19 December 2018 - Categories: Content design, Major projects, Schools, Service design, Teaching Vacancies, User-centred design
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Emma Stace, DfE's Chief Digital Officer, looks over a productive year in 2018

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Where to start if you want to start blogging

Posted by: Janet Hughes, Posted on: 18 December 2018 - Categories: Major projects
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Janet Huges, DfE's Director of Major Projects, shows where to get guidance and inspiration when blogging

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Come and help us support our users - we’re hiring

Posted by: Helen Morris, Posted on: 29 November 2018 - Categories: Careers, User-centred design
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We're hiring great people into our user support teams. If you care about users and want to help us build brilliant services, take a look.

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6 practices for user-centred civil servants

Posted by: Janet Hughes and Emma Stace, Chief digital technology officer, Posted on: 26 November 2018 - Categories: Major projects, User-centred design
A group of DfE colleagues discussing the 6 user-centred practices

How can we be more user-centred, whatever job we do? DfE's Chief Digital Officer Emma Stace and Director of Major Projects Janet Hughes set out 6 practices we can all apply to our work.

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What the DfE Digital team is for

Posted by: Emma Stace, Chief digital technology officer, Posted on: 22 November 2018 - Categories: Service design, User-centred design
Ciaran (left) talking to colleagues at DfE

Emma Stace, the DfE's Chief Digital Officer, talks about how we're helping the DfE change how it does things and become user-centred.

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