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Graduates: accelerate your digital and data career on our Dynamic Graduate Scheme

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Graduates: accelerate your digital and data career on our Dynamic Graduate Scheme

Our 2025 Dynamic Graduate Scheme is now open for a limited time until 7 July. We have multiple digital roles for graduates. Read about how the scheme can supercharge your tech career.

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Design ops: how we design Home Office services at scale

Posted by: Michael Owen and Chris Taylor, Head of User-Centred Design, Posted on: 19 February 2018 - Categories: Design
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...that bit faster and smoother, so they can concentrate on delivering the service. Standards Government Digital Service (GDS) has done a lot of the work to set standards for government...

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What makes a good interview?

Posted by: Clare Ridd, Posted on: 6 February 2018 - Categories: User research

...interviews to get good quality data. Get it wrong and you’ll get poor insights, which can lead to services being designed and built for the wrong thing. But performing good...

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Theory to practice: my first steps as a user researcher intern

Posted by: Joe Coker, Posted on: 26 January 2018 - Categories: Recruitment, User research

...who uses our software to turn that application into a result. Being an important part of a team that creates simple and successful online user journeys gives me great job...

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Can graphic design save your life?

Posted by: Sue Spevack, Interaction Designer, Posted on: 16 January 2018 - Categories: Assisted digital, Design

...projects was working with the assisted digital team on a poster for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). The assisted digital team works to make sure that people who have low...

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Continuous improvement with quality assurance and testing

Posted by: Blaine Webb, Posted on: 5 January 2018 - Categories: Continuous improvement, Development, QAT

...development our test engineers help us check that: code works the way it’s expected to changes to code haven’t broken existing functionality services are protected against security threats Using the...

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Working together to achieve accessibility 

Posted by: James Buller, Posted on: 21 December 2017 - Categories: Accessibility, User research

...members of your team can look out for accessibility issues, backed up by continuous integration. You’ll need to follow through on all this to pass an alpha service assessment. Private...

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Cracking the HOF code

Posted by: Karwai Pun, Posted on: 15 December 2017 - Categories: Design, Development

Senior interaction designer Karwai Pun tells how she used her design skills to help her on her first attempt at using the Home Office Forms framework

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Moving stories: using video to explain user research

Posted by: Emily Mahon-Ball, Posted on: 8 December 2017 - Categories: Accessibility, Design, User research
A video still showing a participant being interviewed at home. A signer translates the narration into sign language.

...– to explain what we mean by ‘user research’. We wanted something we could promote, post to online forums and even send out in recruitment emails. We wanted a text...

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Prototype training: what we teach and what we've learnt

Posted by: Amy Everett and Michael Owen, Posted on: 24 November 2017 - Categories: Design
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...coding and prototyping, but a lot of new designers and non-design colleagues wanted to code and make their own prototypes, but had no idea where to start. There was a...

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Research Services: here to help

Posted by: Dan Stevenson and Stephen Mokogwu, Posted on: 17 November 2017 - Categories: User research
A poster advertising the user researcher labs in Sheffield and Croydon. Both have sofas for interviews, and desks with laptops, cameras and microphones.

User researchers work across the Home Office, gaining insight to improve services in immigration, passports and borders. None of this could happen without user research participants and somewhere to talk...

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