From market to user research
Georgiana's embarking on a user research journey travelling the country and tackling biases, and she's taking us with her.
How we work
Prototyping a service pattern library
In our fourth service patterns installment, we look at prototyping our 'check something' pattern and start work on our service patterns library.
Hot desks, cool space
With more work and a growing team, we found a user-centred approach to getting the most out of our workspace.
Back to the futures: cohort two of Futures Academy
Futures Academy is back! This time our nine brave Essex staff have just five days to tackle the process of registering a birth using new ways of working. Find out how they got on.
Sharing and prioritising our common service patterns
After spending a few weeks mapping our services patterns, some interesting differences began to emerge. Here's what we found.
Mapping common service design patterns
We spent five weeks mapping out over 150 transactional services we provide, from registering a birth to reporting potholes. Find out how we did it.
Agile: the writing's on the wall
Two of our project managers went undercover in an agile Service Design team. Here's what they found.
Service patterns and why they matter
We’ve just started a new piece of work to identify and explore some of the common service patterns that sit within our services. This is how we're doing it.
Work on something that matters in 2019
Wednesday evening, we and our friends at FutureGov hosted an event to meet with some of the UK's digital service design talent. We told our story and talked about how we're transforming public services in Essex.
Show ho ho and tell 19 December - the 2018 wrap up
Bing Crosby is playing through some laptop speakers, there’s a stack of mince pie boxes on the secure document disposal and if you squint your eyes, there might just be snow in the air. In Chelmsford, it’s beginning to feel …