Writing about my design experiences and working as part of a team.
Life in lockdown has affected working practices in many ways. As the DesignOps team at the Home Office, we provide tools, resources and training to content and interaction designers. Right now, this means we’re busy trying to keep regular design community activities going as much as we can.
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When you’re designing a digital service, it can be easy to lose sight of the problem you’re trying to solve. This is especially true when your team is up against a deadline or has been testing a particular feature or aspect of the design.
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I’m a designer and I prototype in code, the kind you put together to test ideas quickly and iterate continuously to meet user needs. Home Office Forms (HOF) is a tool created by developers to help them rapidly build the real service with robust code. So I wondered, could I, a designer with limited development skills, use HOF to build prototypes?
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I wrote a blog post back in September about the accessibility posters we've created at the Home Office called ‘Dos and Don'ts on designing for accessibility' - and I thought I'd give you an update.
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The dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility are general guidelines, best design practices for making services accessible in government. Currently, there are six different posters in the series that cater to users from these areas: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
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I’ve been a civil servant designer at Home Office Digital for nearly 8 months now and I'd like to recount my experiences.
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