Tag: service design

  • Friction is dead. Deal with it.

    Friction is dead. Deal with it.

    The perpetual wisdom of Tom Loosemore stikes again: Plenty of services quietly rely on people giving up. Agents don’t give up. Making your service deliberately harder to use won’t save you. Agents chew through friction; the people without agents bear the cost… …If tireless agents reveal that your service has been depending on people abandoning…

  • User centred design, the GDS way.

    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.