Designing at Home Office Digital
...talks from respected leaders in the design industry. I even co-presented at a cross-government design meet-up - something I never would have imagined doing a year ago. What Home Office...
...talks from respected leaders in the design industry. I even co-presented at a cross-government design meet-up - something I never would have imagined doing a year ago. What Home Office...
...of community. Within the user research and design team we have a fortnightly, cake-fuelled meet-up, where colleagues run workshops and team building exercises, or simply share their experiences. We’ve also...
...We have policy design, organisation design, process design, infrastructure design, security design and so on. ‘Interaction design (IxD) defines the structure and behaviour of interactive systems. Interaction designers strive to...
...stuff. We have also made massive inroads into infrastructure as code. We can provision resources consistently and efficiently and manage them through life, pushing those foundational software development principles, such...
...she’s working in. Learning to speak up A thing that was difficult for me, until I became a more senior developer, was having the confidence to speak up. I always...
...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...
...apprenticeship in software development. It was too good to pass up and so I threw my hat in the ring and clicked the apply button. When the pre-interview work arrived...
Delivery teams across the Home Office spend a lot of time observing and testing ideas with users. It’s an essential component of user centred design and helps us understand if...
...progress The set up We block-booked a room that would become our war room for the week and rallied our troops. Our team was made up of a product owner...
...the content, design and code of the forms to address the issues John encountered. By making the service more accessible for John, we’ll make it easier for everyone to use....