We’ve got a great opportunity within our team to join as a senior service designer! Happy to talk to anyone interested more about the role and our team :) linkedin.com/jobs/view/3764…

Wrote a blog on how we approached scoping out latest project, highlighting the importance of scoping well to avoid any surprises! #product #delivery #discovery medium.com/crisis-and-eme…

Applications are now open for the Topol Digital Fellowship❗
All applicants must be working in a role where they have the ability to focus on a digital transformation or innovation project.
Find out more and apply: orlo.uk/zX84Z
#TopolFellows Digitising Social Care NHS England Workforce, Training and Education

JustAnotherPM | Sid A roadmap is a sequence of problems to solve for the customer. A backlog is the things you are considering as possible solutions for those problems. That is why your roadmap is (or should be) relatively stable, while your backlog is constantly evolving.

Our Taking Control of Agile UX intensive will be October 16-20.

Piece together an effective process that actually works for your team.

Explore more at:
AgileUX.cc

Our product team at the British Red Cross 🧡 has been working hard over the last two months on a project to explore what our heatwave offer should look like. We have captured our learnings and process over discovery in the blog below!
medium.com/crisis-and-eme…

Unique & exciting opportunity to bring a strategy / consulting skillset & work on some of the most interesting challenges within one of the largest humanitarian organisations
Strategic? Curious? Passionate? APPLY
(or share with those who are)
careers.redcross.org.uk/vacancies/8059…

In the latest NHS digital service manual release, among other things, we have:
- 2 new experimental components (tab and character count)
- a new design principle about sustainability
- some recommendations about accessibility overlays and widgets

service-manual.nhs.uk

“Facilitation Matrix for better workshops or meetings” by Rich Nadworny
link.medium.com/6m787DsKlzb

Next time you call out a spelling mistake in public, consider who wrote it.

It might be someone:

- from a different country
- under pressure
- hurting, sad or grieving
- distracted or stressed
- struggling
- dyslexic

Costs nothing to be kind.

The Rise and Fall of Innovation Labs in International Development ictworks.org/innovation-lab… via @ICT_works

Lack of trauma informed design is lack of human centred design. It risks no appreciation how identity and past experiences affect a user’s experience

Really important thread

It’s simple really, the country is call Türkiye not Turkey, and that’s the correct spelling/ pronunciation we should be using in our comms. I go into my thoughts in more detail in the blog below #türkiye #türkiye earthquake
link.medium.com/VjvyIQdZpxb

'Turns out when you stop looking to create urgency, the passion and purpose latent in your team might just cause the right things to get done at just the right pace.'
Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. by Kimber Lockhart link.medium.com/aAS1J94yVwb

This is part of some good work at GDS, but I’m increasingly seeing things that are just ideation workshops/sessions being labelled design sprints. What do other people think about this? #govdesign designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/09/how…