We ran a design sprint over five consecutive days in February 2025. We’ll share the outcomes from the sprint in another blog. Here we’ll be exploring running the sprint itself, what went well and what we’d do differently next time. …
At Essex County Council, we now have several websites on the LocalGov Drupal (LGD) platform. These websites are managed by editors from within their respective services. Some have managed web content before, for others this is a new responsibility. We’re …
What we learned when we changed our web platform's hosting and support arrangements. Why we needed to do this We’ve done a lot of work on our websites since we first started to adopt Local Gov Drupal (LGD) in 2022. …
Have you made any new year’s resolutions? I did. I made one. Go to the gym more? Nope, not that. Drink more water? Nope, should do, but not that either. Make consent forms better? That’s the one. I enlisted the …
Find out how our product managers, Will, Jen, and Sucharitha, fared during their day of discovery, companionship, and unexpected turns at the Local Gov Drupal Unconference.
Adam Spencer details how the User Researchers within Essex County Council work with staff and residents to gather data that helps the council make important changes and improvements to its services by exploring and validating user needs.
The short answer is no. People who need them use their own translation tools. But, you can write the content in a way that those tools will translate well. Where we know we need one or two specific languages for …
Our lives are influenced by technology, sometimes without our awareness. We want to share what we are doing to transform the way we work and help our colleagues.
Emma Chisholm shares with us her experience of joining ECC as a Junior Researcher.
Claire, Dani and May tell us how they and others have been sharing what they learned at this year’s SDinGov conference.
Shaurya Rajwar explores our relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers and how we want Robotic Process Automation to drive efficiency in processes and applications across our digital assets