The Home Office Digital Career Development programme offers an 18-month paid accelerated learning experience to those with a passion for user-centred digital services. You’ll follow a structured development path tailored to your chosen role with access to senior mentors and …
If I asked you how you make a cup of tea, I'm sure you could tell me pretty quickly.
I joined the content design team in the Home Office in March and I’ll be leaving at the end of August. Design has never been something I saw myself doing long-term, but my brief foray has taught me a lot. …
I’ve been a woman all my life and a developer for all my working life, so I feel it’s important to acknowledge the limitations of my experience before I start to describe it.
What is open source and why do I believe the government should become one of the biggest open source contributors?
If you are not careful you can antagonise users before they have even started testing your service.
The best way to proof your content is for someone else to read it. But sometimes you don’t have time - how can you be sure you’ve caught all the typos before you send it out?
Every designer should care about accessibility. Designs from designers who don’t care end up excluding people, and that’s simply not acceptable.
I was asked this week to explain my design process for a designer who recently joined Home Office Digital. As a designer, I really like patterns. In the design world, a pattern is a set of regular decisions taken to …
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.
Understanding Deaf users’ needs means we can create digital services that better meet those needs. As part of Deaf awareness week (2 to 8 May), here’s what we’ve been doing in Home Office Digital to better understand the needs of …
