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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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Celebrating the success of home-grown talent

Posted by: Hannah Turner and Ann Blundy, Posted on: 15 October 2018 - Categories: Recruitment
Home Office Digital Internship and Junior Development Programme lead Hannah Turner poses with her Rising Star award.

...past interns, who has just been promoted to a senior executive officer role, reflected that: “The Home Office user research internship programme has been fantastic. It’s given me the chance...

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Documenting design

Posted by: Eliot Hill, Posted on: 7 September 2018 - Categories: Agile, Design
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Senior interaction designer Eliot Hill explains a new tagging system that shows the confidence levels in user journeys during various stages of the design process.

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Moving towards Continuous Delivery at DDaT

Posted by: Matthew Skelton, Posted on: 10 August 2018 - Categories: Development
Dave Farley presents at the lunchtime tech talk

Matthew Skelton, Engineering Lead for Immigration Technology, tells how the adoption of Continuous Delivery at the Home Office was boosted by a visit from industry expert Dave Farley.

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How we use the digital inclusion scale

Posted by: Amy Everett, Posted on: 3 August 2018 - Categories: Assisted digital
The digital inclusion scale, showing how people fall into many categories of digital skill and confidence.

...designers and researchers came together for an afternoon to understand how the scale is being used in delivery teams, its relevance to our users, and how we could iterate the...

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Creating a list of services

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 7 June 2018 - Categories: Service design
A screen shot of the Home Office list of services. You can find the list at https://ukhomeoffice.github.io/coe/service-listhttps://ukhomeoffice.github.io/coe/service-list/

...for example ‘Employ someone – check if someone is allowed to work’. Who was involved in making this list We reviewed service content on GOV.UK, looked at research with users...

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Illustrating the importance of accessible design

Posted by: Sue Spevack, Interaction Designer, Posted on: 17 May 2018 - Categories: Accessibility
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...which designs worked best and also told us what elements were not working. The posters on display in Scot Gov offices. Getting the posters out there We were eager to...

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A collaborative approach to service assessments

Posted by: Natasha Ennals, Posted on: 27 April 2018 - Categories: Service assessments
A screenshot of the Digital Service Standard homepage

...to fix. Booking your service assessment Booking your service assessment is as easy as making contact. It takes about 3 weeks to organise an assessment panel and location, but extra...

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Digital internships: putting passion to practical use

Posted by: Craig Beaton, Posted on: 13 April 2018 - Categories: Recruitment, User research
User researcher intern Craig in a research interview with a participant

...qualification and research experience matched the job description and skillset, so I gave the application a shot. It was a demanding application process that tested me at every point. The...

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Where do service designers fit within an organisation?

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 16 March 2018 - Categories: Service design
A table of content that repeats the 6 ways a service designer works

...to standardise and scale good approaches to services across the department, while growing the specialist domain knowledge we need to have real impact in policy, strategy, operation and delivery teams....

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Designing for government: an intern's perspective

Posted by: Beth Dixon, Posted on: 2 March 2018 - Categories: Design, Recruitment
A print out of a screen design, with handwritten design tweaks

...Soon after, I went on the GDS agile training course, which is where I was introduced to the government design principles. ‘This is for everyone’ – one of the principles...

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