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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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The interviewer in the room

Posted by: Louise Auger, Posted on: 8 April 2016 - Categories: User research

...going on right there in the interview, instead devote your attention to the interviewee and go with their flow. For example, you might find your previous experiences suggest potential reasons...

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Content designers are here to help

Posted by: Nick Cowan, Posted on: 23 March 2016 - Categories: Content
A content clinic session

...content clinics; long live the content mailbox To help anyone with a tricky piece of content, we set up content clinics. These informal drop-in sessions were held every fortnight with...

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Should content be hardcoded or externalised?

Posted by: Bernard Tyers, Posted on: 16 March 2016 - Categories: Content, Development

...content out of the code into a separate content file. It involves replacing the content with a ‘token’, which is entered into the code. That token represents the correct words,...

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The benefits of pair designing

Posted by: Tom Harrop, Posted on: 12 February 2016 - Categories: Content, Design

...a number of ways. Pairing designers and creating a micro-community within a project team can be a great way to avoid burn-out and increase motivation. There are a few things...

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A content designer's starter guide to agile

Posted by: Ben Stevens, Product Lead, Enablers, Posted on: 8 February 2016 - Categories: Agile, Content
As a content designer, I need to understand agile so I can do my job well

...deployed, and it can then be too too late to change the design. Getting real content into the product earlier makes it easier to get user feedback on the language...

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What we do to make Home Office Digital a better place to be

Posted by: Justin Hill, Posted on: 27 January 2016 - Categories: Continuous improvement
Home Office Digital's organisational sprint wall

...track of progress we hold bi-weekly stand-ups, which allow us to act where there are blockers/delays for whatever reason. Anyone in HOD can come to a standup and take on...

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Prototyping content

Posted by: Nick Cowan, Posted on: 6 January 2016 - Categories: Service design, User research
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...page how you want it. Turning static images into a prototype Once you’ve mocked up your new pages, you can drop them into Invision - a free prototyping app. Invision...

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Tips for writing for non-native English speakers

Posted by: Amanda Summers-Plotno and Ben Stevens, Product Lead, Enablers, Posted on: 29 December 2015 - Categories: Service design, User research
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...and Kuwait, problems are evident. Since April 2015 many UK visa applicants have had to pay an immigration health surcharge (IHS). Analytics show the average time spent on the IHS...

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Home Office Forms - building for reuse

Posted by: Ben Marvell, Posted on: 22 December 2015 - Categories: Development
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...approach would be to break the application down into sub applications, with each app representing a journey. This greatly simplified the application and ensured that new developers coming to the...

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Uncommon people

Posted by: Andrew Pattinson, Posted on: 15 December 2015 - Categories: Recruitment
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Sheffield is a fantastically creative city. Just look at the sheer number of artists who have come from Sheffield. The Arctic Monkeys, Cabaret Voltaire, Craine, Def Leppard, Human League, Heaven...

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