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Confidence tricks: how to help assisted digital users

Posted by: Clare Ridd, Posted on: 21 April 2017 - Categories: Assisted digital, Content, Design, User research
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...online forms and services, for example they don’t have a computer or smartphone, or they believe they don’t have the skills to do the same task online. Others say they...

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Building internal systems v providing services  

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 20 April 2017 - Categories: Service design
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As we go about redesigning public services to be clearer, simpler and faster, we sometimes hear things like, ‘civil servants are users too.’ And of course they are.

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Theory to practice: diary of an interaction design intern

Posted by: Simon Castillo, Posted on: 10 April 2017 - Categories: Design

I joined the Home Office 4 months ago, after completing an intensive course in user experience design at General Assembly. The course was a mix of theory, workshops and projects, all designed to mirror industry practice.

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The hidden benefits of user centred design

Posted by: Chris Taylor, Head of User-Centred Design, Posted on: 6 April 2017 - Categories: Design, Service design
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...our ideas work. However, I have a theory that there is a hidden benefit of this approach that I don’t often hear people talk about: user centred design makes the...

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