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Running a design sprint about consent: lessons and challenges

A diagram showing: Recruit participant, consent, research activity, what does this look like. With arrows linking these topics. An arrow also points to a definition of informed consent.

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 1-5 July

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 5 July 2019 - Categories: Week notes
Our second community of practice

Life in the post go-live era is looking pretty good. Find out what we've been up to this week.

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Weeknotes 24-28 June

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 28 June 2019 - Categories: Week notes
home page essex.gov.uk

It's been a momentous week for the Service Design team, and we've got somebody we'd like you to meet.

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Weeknotes 17-21 June

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 21 June 2019 - Categories: Week notes
our team meeting space

This week we've been moving forwards and looking back. It's less dangerous than it sounds, take a look.

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Prototyping a service pattern library

Posted by: Nicholas Ward, Alessandra Canella, Jenny Thai and Chris Evans, Posted on: 21 June 2019 - Categories: How we work, Our projects
Service pattern library diagram, for service design, tech services

In our fourth service patterns installment, we look at prototyping our 'check something' pattern and start work on our service patterns library.

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Weeknotes 10-14 June

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 14 June 2019 - Categories: Week notes
The multidisciplinary team met together last week to hear about the program.

This week we've been thinking about testing, training and best practice. We've also had some friends over. Find out all about it.

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Weeknotes 3-7 June

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 7 June 2019 - Categories: Week notes
A whiteboard on wheeles and a whiteboard on the wall

This week we've been pushing for go-live and looking to the future. See what we've been up to.

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Weeknotes 27-31 May

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 31 May 2019 - Categories: Week notes
John Newton, Content Designer at Essex County Council Service Design team with James Pallister

A supersonic round up of what we've been up to this week. Come and see - we've been busy.

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Hot desks, cool space

Posted by: Nicholas Ward, Posted on: 28 May 2019 - Categories: About the team, How we work
our new workspace

With more work and a growing team, we found a user-centred approach to getting the most out of our workspace.

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Weeknotes 20-24 May

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 24 May 2019 - Categories: Week notes

The launch date for essex.gov.uk is in sight and we're working flat out to lay the perfect groundwork for go-live and beyond. Find out what we've been up to this week.

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Weeknotes 13-17 May

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 17 May 2019 - Categories: Week notes

We’re approaching our final sprint, and we’re doing everything we can to make sure we get over the finish line. Take a look at what we've been up to.

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