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Home Office Digital: A new name for a new chapter

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Home Office Digital: A new name for a new chapter

‘Putting digital at the core of everything we do’. Our Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer, Rob Thompson, sets out how our name change and rebrand reflects our purpose and ambition for the future.

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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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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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