International Design in Government Conference: Day One
A round-up of day one at the International Design in Government Conference, by Matt Weeks. This July I attended the…
Read more Redesigning bulletins (my first, and Benjy’s second, Design Sprint)
As you may have seen from Darren’s blog post, we are focussing on redesigning our statistical bulletins. To kick-start this work,…
Read moreWhat’s French for data visualisation?
Conferences are a great way to learn and view the wider field of your profession. Often in data visualisation, you…
Read moreMaking better bulletins – let’s start with what we know
Statistical bulletins are a critical part of what we do at the ONS. They are read by more people than…
Read moreAccessibility is user experience
I’m Sarah and I work in the Electronic Questionnaire (eQ) team within Survey Data Collection, at Office for National Statistics….
Read moreReusable visualisation
You may have seen in June last year we asked people to draw the rest of the line, for several charts,…
Read moreWe’re hiring five graphic designers (and a front end developer)
We’re looking for three digital designers, two brand and print designers and one front end developer. These roles are based…
Read moreFinding data by location (my first Design Sprint)
Earlier this year we ran a Design Sprint. It’s a five-day sprint starting on Monday and ending on Friday with…
Read moreWhat is it really like working in an Agile delivery team?
It’s been almost six months since I moved into the ONS website development team. I was lucky to start the…
Read moreBuilding a design culture, some tips from Leading Design Conference
I’ve just got back from Leading Design. One of the key themes from the two days of talks was how…
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