User centred design, the GDS way.
I was recently in Brighton where the city council hosted a Government Digital Service session on user centered design. Here are things I found most interesting.
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I was recently in Brighton where the city council hosted a Government Digital Service session on user centered design. Here are things I found most interesting.
Read moreuxplanet.org has a tidy summary of 7 principles which can be applied to digital service design to influence people’s behavoir.
Read moreDavid Airey’s blog has a nice excerpt from small NYC based design firm Sagmeister & Walsh’s answers page. The section on advice for students gives the following tips for young designers, but […]
Read moreHere’s an ambitious forward thinking project – cables under roads which can generate a field which is picked up by a special coil built into electric cars to charge them. […]
Read moreHow can you get really honest feedback about your website or digital project? Richard Littauer realised that when he gets drunk, he gets very honest, and it turns out […]
Read moreWhen something has been designed exceptionally well, you shouldn’t notice “the design”. You should be using a service which just works, not fighting to understand what the process […]
Read moreAnother post about good design. It doesn’t need to “wow” its audience, good design works. And it may look boring or dull, but if it allows people to accomplish […]
Read moreIn a digital world where you can be overwhelmed with online services to help wireframe, brainstorm and project manage, it’s nice to see some attention being given to some […]
Read moreI’ve spent my career in the charity and public sector, where services are often offered to those in need for free at the point of delivery. This can […]
Read moreOne of the more ambitious design principles of the the Government Digital service is number four: Do the hard work to make it simple. But it’s not all about […]
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