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User centred design, the GDS way.

User centred design, the GDS way.

Posted on 28 December 201828 December 2018

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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New guy

New guy

Posted on 23 November 201823 November 2018

There’s a new guy where I work, he’s been here a month now. After 7 incredible, fun and fulfilling years at @gdsteam I'm leaving to become Chief Digital […]

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Digital services – doing the hard work for you.

Digital services – doing the hard work for you.

Posted on 15 June 201531 August 2015

One 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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Presenting practical presentations

Presenting practical presentations

Posted on 14 June 20151 September 2015

“Death by powerpoint” is a phrase I’ve heard from someone at some point wherever I’ve worked. Hopefully if you work at GDS, or spend a lot of time […]

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Government digital services as a platform. Yes please.

Posted on 30 March 201531 August 2015

Yes to all of this: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/29/government-as-a-platform-the-next-phase-of-digital-transformation/ And this needs to be just the start for the public sector.

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Plain English for international readers

Posted on 16 October 2013

The team developing the visit visa service at gov.uk recently blogged about some testing with international users over a screencast which gave them some great insights from the kind […]

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