My talk at Product People West & South 14 Nov 2018 Rob Chambers, Product manager, ONS website and APIs As…
Read more on Product People West & South: Product for APIs, what’s the difference?This year we’ve interviewed, hired and welcomed six new interaction and graphic designers to the Digital Publishing team at ONS…
Read more on Things we learnt when we hired six designers at the same timeFor the past 12 months or so, the search term “gender pay gap” has consistently been one of the most…
Read more on Helping users get what they need from ONS bulletinsWhat is a service? “A service is something that helps someone to do something.” – Lou Downe, Head of Design…
Read more on Why ONS needs to hire service designersMost users come to our site with a question, for which they believe some data is the answer. The best…
Read more on What’s wrong with the way we publish data?Here at ONS, we’re doing a lot of work on our statistical bulletins – the pages we publish alongside new…
Read more on Writing about statistics: why is shorter, better?
A round-up of day one at the International Design in Government Conference, by Matt Weeks. This July I attended the…
Read more on International Design in Government Conference: Day One
As you may have seen from Darren’s blog post, we are focussing on redesigning our statistical bulletins. To kick-start this work,…
Read more on Redesigning bulletins (my first, and Benjy’s second, Design Sprint)Conferences are a great way to learn and view the wider field of your profession. Often in data visualisation, you…
Read more on What’s French for data visualisation?What does this image look like to you? It’s actually the quarterly Crime bulletin from January this year. As part…
Read more on Bulletin development – making pages ‘easier to read’
