Software Developer, Sharon Briscoe Having been a long serving civil servant with almost 20 years of experience under my belt in casework and management, I hadn’t considered a career change...
...wrong things.’ ‘The end users need something different from what we initially thought.’ It’s much better to find these things out at the start so you can fix it, rather...
...of guidance on building and maintaining digital services, including the Service Manual, Design Principles, the Technology Code of Practice and the Digital Service Standard. It’s incredibly useful, but people don’t...
...level of financial needs is met, people are more motivated by the following things: autonomy - the need to direct our own lives mastery - to get better at things...
...able to interact with. Building a code-rich prototype didn’t mean the rest of the team were excluded from the day. Everyone played their part; building dummy data sets, mocking up...
...footer. This difficulty in moving between sections occurred several times and was a real source of frustration for him. John also had difficulties entering information into editable fields. Sometimes he...
...‘redesigning all the websites and letters, talking to everyone involved, reviewing casework processes, system maintenance and code, while understanding the wider context of someone’s real user journey – everything that...
...do this. I’m proud, because between us we’ve used our varied expertise to do some clever things with both existing data and systems, which ultimately helps give refuge to those...
...good code as part of a team, not to win a popularity contest. Some offices are better than others Developers, male or female, are in demand. And that’s a fact...
...things for our users. Become best friends with the person building your designs The relationship between the designer and front-end developer is really important. I don’t just want to hand...
