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Running a design sprint about consent: lessons and challenges

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Running a design sprint about consent: lessons and challenges

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. …

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Weeknotes 2-6 September

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 6 September 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Team benches

There’s a bit of a bite back in the air in Chelmsford, and we’ve plenty to get our teeth into. See what we've been up to this week.

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Weeknotes 26-30 August

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 30 August 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Accessibility show and tell

A short week means a mini weeknotes. Find out what we've been up to.

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Weeknotes 19-23 August

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 23 August 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Testing prototypes in the library

This week we've been iterating, ideating and educating. Find out more.

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Weeknotes 12-16 August

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 16 August 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Helen West show and tell

This week we've been helping Essex say what it means, with well-structured, clear content. Find out what else we've been up to.

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Weeknotes 5-9 August

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 9 August 2019 - Categories: Week notes
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Summer's here in all its stormy glory, bringing lots of exciting opportunities, and some unique problems for the team to solve. Find out what we've been up to.

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Weeknotes 29 July-2 August

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 2 August 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Folding tables on wheels

With new projects coming to fruition, we're thinking about how to harvest our team's talents. Find out what we've been up to.

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Weeknotes 22-26 July

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 30 July 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Service design show and tell

We've had a scorching week in the Service Design team. Find out what we've been up to.

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Weeknotes 15-19 July

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 19 July 2019 - Categories: Week notes
User research in the Library

From spaghetti towers to rhymetime, it's all been fun and games this week. Find out what we've been up to.

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From market to user research

Posted by: Georgiana Murariu, Posted on: 15 July 2019 - Categories: About the team, Best practice, data, How we work, user insights, User research
A glass wall of post it notes

Georgiana's embarking on a user research journey travelling the country and tackling biases, and she's taking us with her.

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Weeknotes 8-12 July

Posted by: Edmund Wellington, Posted on: 12 July 2019 - Categories: Week notes
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Now that essex.gov.uk has gone live and people can relax a little bit (only a little mind, there’s still plenty to do) a few members of the team have taken the chance for a much-deserved break.

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