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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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Agile: back to basics

Posted by: Ian Eccles-Smith, Posted on: 10 November 2017 - Categories: Agile
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...each need, then the product manager reviews and releases to the end users. Done right, this can be a very fast process. The team may need someone help to improve...

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Take note: why you should keep records of service decisions

Posted by: Nadia Huq, Posted on: 27 October 2017 - Categories: Continuous improvement, Service optimisation
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...doesn’t mean your efforts aren’t appreciated. They are – I can vouch for that. So thank you Jeremy Wyatt, secret keeper of notes and all-round helpful human. If we ever...

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Home Office Digital internships: finding new talent

Posted by: Hannah Turner, Posted on: 20 October 2017 - Categories: Recruitment
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...and in the future. Over the past few years, we’ve been working to improve our ability to design and deliver digital services, and to modernise critical technology infrastructure to help...

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Storing and sharing user research

Posted by: katyarnold, Posted on: 13 October 2017 - Categories: User research

Katy Arnold, head of profession for user research and design, tells of the efforts being made to store and share outputs from research so anyone involved in service delivery can understand what users need.

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The Digital Service Standard: how to get it right first time

Posted by: Alex Bartlett, Posted on: 9 October 2017 - Categories: Service assessments
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...always know it’s there. Reading the guidance will help you think and work through what needs to be done in each phase, who’s needed to do it and what good...

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Researching and designing assisted digital services for UKVI

Posted by: Amy Everett and Caroline Trimm, Posted on: 29 September 2017 - Categories: Assisted digital
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...help completing their immigration applications online. Together, they’ve researched and developed a UKVI-wide assisted digital service. Launched on 25 September, the service covers AD support for all UKVI online products....

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Doing less by focusing on user needs

Posted by: Sam Wakeling, Posted on: 8 September 2017 - Categories: Design, Service design, User research
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...service quicker, simpler and cheaper (to use and probably to build too). Another way to put it is that user needs are about getting done only what’s needed. The goal...

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Good icons should be invisible

Posted by: Eliot Hill, Posted on: 18 August 2017 - Categories: Design
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Senior interaction designer Eliot Hill explains the benefits of using the Home Office icons pattern on internal services

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Learning through international collaboration in New Zealand

Posted by: Emily Mahon-Ball, Posted on: 11 August 2017 - Categories: Service design, Transformation, User research
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...I was excited about a recent exchange trip to the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) in New Zealand. The UK and New Zealand are 2 countries in Digital 5, or...

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What we mean by service outcomes and measurement

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 4 August 2017 - Categories: Service design

...speed up decision making.’ These are different to the desired outcomes for a service or stage. Outcomes for a stage in a service Examples of good outcomes are ‘People know...

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