A Week of Service Design in Wales
In December 2019, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in Newport hosted an amazing week of service design-related events. The week…
Read moreTackling Product into a thing
I’m really proud of what I’ve achieved so far and who I’ve been privileged to work with. Taking that and…
Read moreDigital Leaders retro
It’s official: Digital Leaders week is over for 2019! From the 17 to 21 June we hosted 6 events on…
Read moreRedesigning 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 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 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…
Read moreEnabling users to customise datasets
We are now in full swing with the Data Discovery alpha project. You can read a bit more about how our inception stage went and get an intro to the project by reading my blog post Getting started with Data Discovery.
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