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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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Problem solving with a design sprint

Posted by: Charles Reynolds-Talbot, Posted on: 14 February 2017 - Categories: Agile, Design
Design sprint in progress

While my team was going through a quiet period on current projects, I decided to run a week-long ‘design sprint’ with a smaller sub team to begin to tackle our next project. Our service is focussed on building systems that …

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Tips on measuring performance

Posted by: Jenny Huynh, Posted on: 27 January 2017 - Categories: Data, Performance
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...template for a performance workshop. From running similar workshops, it helped me to understand what can be done to improve performance analysis in the department. A photo from one of...

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Discovering the value of access needs research

Posted by: Aspasia Dellaporta and Chris Lansley, Posted on: 13 January 2017 - Categories: Accessibility, Service design, User research
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...the content, design and code of the forms to address the issues John encountered. By making the service more accessible for John, we’ll make it easier for everyone to use....

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Designing for accessibility: an update on our accessibility posters

Posted by: Karwai Pun, Posted on: 28 December 2016 - Categories: Accessibility, Design

I wrote a blog post back in September about the accessibility posters we've created at the Home Office called ‘Dos and Don'ts on designing for accessibility' - and I thought...

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Creating a common language to describe services

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 21 December 2016 - Categories: Service design
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...to understand services and create a list of terms (our taxonomy) so we can communicate more simply and clearly across the Home Office. Some of the terms we all use,...

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The power of pictures in service design

Posted by: Tom Norman, Posted on: 25 November 2016 - Categories: Casework, Design, Service design

...lots of scribbling, crossing out and sticky-tape. The aim is to end up with a high-fidelity digital process map that can be printed at high resolution and digitally shared. The...

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How will this new shiny thing deliver value?

Posted by: Ollie Beal, Posted on: 21 November 2016 - Categories: Casework, Service design, User research

...how they can be grouped together. Record time against tasks You need to break tasks down into columns so that you have plenty of space for multiple processes. Excel works...

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Delivery managers, product managers and service managers – how to get the best out of them

Posted by: Praveen Karadiguddi, Posted on: 15 November 2016 - Categories: Agile

...user researchers – are heavily involved in getting the user needs right for a service. The team is responsible for building the service to meet those needs in the right...

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What do service designers do?

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 11 November 2016 - Categories: Service design

...‘redesigning all the websites and letters, talking to everyone involved, reviewing casework processes, system maintenance and code, while understanding the wider context of someone’s real user journey – everything that...

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The first #DigitalGovWomen unconference: a man’s perspective

Posted by: Ben Stevens, Product Lead, Enablers, Posted on: 21 October 2016 - Categories: Diversity, Equality

...can pitch their discussion ideas to the audience, one-by-one, and once all the ideas have been heard, people choose which discussion they’d like to be a part of. The discussion...

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