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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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Researching and designing assisted digital services for UKVI

Posted by: Amy Everett and Caroline Trimm, Posted on: 29 September 2017 - Categories: Assisted digital
An illustration depicting assisted digital users being given a helping hand using digital services

...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
An image of 2 Swiss Army Knives. The first is complicated with many tools, the second is much simpler with just a few

...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
Civil servants visiting New Zealand on the D5 exchange trip

...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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Types and stages of services

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 31 July 2017 - Categories: Service design
Table of common stages in a service

...wider context around the part they’re working on, as well as forming a benchmark for when we change things. That would leave individual teams free to focus their user research...

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Creating common ground with design standards

Posted by: Michael Owen, Posted on: 25 July 2017 - Categories: Design
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...share experimental ideas. All in the open. These experiences have helped us iterate our goals for the project by allowing us to: create a common design language across the organisation...

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Knowing the right level of interaction design

Posted by: Charles Reynolds-Talbot, Posted on: 7 July 2017 - Categories: Design
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...that are easy to use and understand. They’ll prototype these solutions – often in code because interactions are made of code, not mock-ups – to test ideas with users and...

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The learning curve of a HODDaT user researcher intern  

Posted by: Kiri Chaundy, Posted on: 4 July 2017 - Categories: Recruitment, User research
User researcher intern Kiri Chaundy

...used the internet in my research, I’d never researched how people use the internet. Which is why I jumped at the chance of becoming a user researcher intern at Home...

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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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