Digital

  • Using service design to improve business support in Scotland

    8th June 2018 by

    As part of phase 2 of the Enterprise and Skills review, Scottish Government’s Digital Transformation Service (DTS) were asked to undertake a short, pre-discovery to look at how the current business support services in Scotland were either meeting, or not meeting, user needs. The business support services we were asked to look at, were those…

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  • Empathy in user focused design

    5th April 2018 by

    Last month, a member of my family was rushed to hospital and needed heart surgery. (Thankfully, they’re doing well now.) I had to make sure that, once they were home, they had the care and support they needed. So I found myself on the receiving end of the kind of content I produce. In the…

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  • The Service Design Champions Programme: what we thought

    3rd July 2017 by

    The Service Design Champions event was a 4-day introduction to service and user-focused thinking, run by the User Research and Service Design team. Mark Black-Daniels and Dawn Kofie, content designers from mygov.scot, reflect on their experiences of the programme. Why we wanted to do the training MBD: In the work I’ve been doing for the…

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  • Designing form elements to help users

    24th April 2017 by

    To help service designers across the Scottish public sector create consistent and usable services we have developed a guide for forms.

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