Using pair writing to improve internal guidance
...paired by opening up the Google Doc on our respective laptops and taking turns to write and comment. Pairing in this way was useful in terms of quickly bringing our...
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Content workflow tips
...design is not linear identifying the right formats and channels takes time collaborating with the right subject matter experts (SMEs) is essential producing high-quality content requires significant effort For guidance,...
Why we built the new Teaching Vacancies service
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Selena Brown, Posted on:
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Service design, Teaching Vacancies, User-centred design
...have signed up. The East of England are following behind with over 50% of schools signed up. Promoting the Teaching Vacancies service To make sure teachers looking for their next...
Our lesson planning alpha passed the updated service standard assessment
...criteria Our Delivery Manager and I went through the updated standard and guidance meticulously. For good measure I swotted up on everything Lou Downe, former Director of Design and Service...
Learning how to be anti-racist in our recruitment
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Katie Pether, Digital recruitment lead, Posted on:
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Careers, culture, equity, race, recruitment
...lockdown, we did lots of community events including: Code Untapped Hackathon Silicon Milk Roundabout Service Design in Government UX Playground We now need to find more creative ways to step...
Making the 'Apply for teacher training' service accessible from start
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'Becoming a teacher' team, Posted on:
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Accessibility, digital inclusion, Service design, user research
...to support disabled candidates. The sixth government design principle, ‘this is for everyone’, is at the centre of what we do. Accessible design is good design and if our service...
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
...To encourage people to apply for our design roles, we ran our first design open sessions. These were open to everyone – people of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities,...
Making use of the Department for Education accessibility experience lab in Sheffield
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Bunsi Shah and Rick Garnett, Posted on:
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Accessibility, culture, design, User-centred design
...download a screen reader? Would you examine your code to ensure it has alt tags on images? Or would you just turn off your monitor? Probably not that last one,...
Mastering design iterations: The power of documentation
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Laura Sanchez, Posted on:
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Collaboration, Content design, Service design, software and services, technology, user research, User-centred design
Have you ever struggled to remember the context behind a particular design iteration? In the fast-paced world of UX design, decisions are made quickly and iterated even faster. But, as...
Introducing the DfE Plain Language standard
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Kerry Lyons, Steve Milnes and Sarah Stewart, Senior Content Designer, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Content design, Plain Language Standard, technology
...act on what they understand The standard incorporates our ways of working and best practise for user-centred design in government. It should not create any more work for content designers,...
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