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Creating common ground with design standards
Creating common ground with design standards
Senior designer Michael Owen explains how design standards can help inform good design choices
Discovering the value of access needs research
Chris has worked in UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) since 2003. Aspasia, a user researcher working on visa applications, invited Chris to observe a research session. Together they went to visit John, who has a degenerative eye condition that’s left …
Designing for accessibility: an update on our accessibility posters
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 I'd give you an update.
Creating a common language to describe services
When we build teams to work on services, the individuals may have never worked together before, and may have different ways of describing their work.
The power of pictures in service design
In October 2015 the Syrian Refugee Resettlement Service had got off to great start. User researchers had done some excellent discovery work to paint the general picture of the existing Syrian refugee resettlement process in the UK.
How will this new shiny thing deliver value?
As a user researcher working on immigration case working, I was recently asked ‘How will this new shiny thing you’re designing deliver value?’
Delivery managers, product managers and service managers – how to get the best out of them
Recently I was facilitating a retrospective. One of the main concerns raised was how the delivery manager, product manager and service manager can avoid stepping on each other’s shoes. How often have you come across this situation?
What do service designers do?
As we establish new roles in public service, such as 'service designers', it raises some good questions and debate. We already have multidisciplinary teams designing and building services, so where does the service designer fit in, exactly? What do service …
The first #DigitalGovWomen unconference: a man’s perspective
Yesterday I attended the first ever Women in Tech government-wide conference. I was proud to be one of around only 5 men in a room full of women, but it was a shame there were so few of us.
How a digital team is helping to resettle Syrian refugees
I’m immensely proud to be working as a researcher on a smart but simple-to-use case-working service for staff at the Home Office.
From zero to delivery - our Sheffield hub start up
Chris Roberts shares some highlights from the first 10 months of Home Office Digital Delivery in Sheffield.