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Launching the Home Office 2030 Digital Strategy 

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Launching the Home Office 2030 Digital Strategy 

Our Home Office 2030 Digital Strategy has just been published. Read more about our 8 strategic shifts and how we aim to achieve them.

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The government’s role in open source

Posted by: Tim Gent, Posted on: 15 July 2016 - Categories: Development, Open source
Tim Gent delivering a speech about open source in government

...than software owned by an individual or a company (also known as proprietary software). Where we are today Today we use a lot of open source software in government projects....

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Make invitations to beta services better

Posted by: James Buller, Posted on: 8 July 2016 - Categories: Service design, User research
A research participant entering an invitation code on an iPad

If you are not careful you can antagonise users before they have even started testing your service.

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Tips on how to proofread your own content

Posted by: Nick Cowan, Posted on: 6 July 2016 - Categories: Content

...Print it out Reading comprehension is lower on screens than on paper. Printing out your content and reading it line by line will help you focus on finding mistakes. Wait...

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Designing with an accessible mindset

Posted by: Michael Owen, Posted on: 19 May 2016 - Categories: Accessibility, Design

...should be available as text-only. That means alt tags for images, audio and video. Be careful with colour Avoid using only colour to convey meaning. Screen readers won’t communicate colour,...

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Designing your design process

Posted by: Michael Owen, Posted on: 13 May 2016 - Categories: Design, Service design

...I think it’s helpful for designers to be able to code, is that it helps this relationship. I can build relationships by doing a bit of pair-developing on a part...

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Join Home Office Digital - we're hiring

Posted by: katyarnold, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Recruitment

It’s a really exciting time to work in Home Office Digital. We work on really important services, which affect people across the UK and beyond.

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What Deaf awareness week means to Home Office Digital

Posted by: Emily Mahon-Ball, Posted on: 5 May 2016 - Categories: Accessibility, User research

...in Home Office Digital to better understand the needs of Deaf users. The whole user research and design team has taken part in Deaf awareness training. We learnt just how...

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Great things about being a user research intern for Home Office Digital

Posted by: Ben Walker and Nick Wainman, Posted on: 29 April 2016 - Categories: Recruitment, User research
A board full of Post It Notes

...on the other hand, have been working on an internal project, the single intelligence platform (SIP), which will modernise the collection, storage and use of data to identify and tackle...

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Service design at the Home Office

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 27 April 2016 - Categories: Recruitment, Service design

...new job. Our services are things they have to do to get what they want. The ideal service would be one where the user doesn’t have to do anything at...

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Designing at Home Office Digital

Posted by: Karwai Pun, Posted on: 22 April 2016 - Categories: Design

...talks from respected leaders in the design industry. I even co-presented at a cross-government design meet-up - something I never would have imagined doing a year ago. What Home Office...

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