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. …
Agile is a team sport, but that doesn't mean that you can't take some time on your own. John tells us how the Service Design team supports different ways of working.
We agree we're a pretty good team, but why? We talk to Martin, Maria, Magda and Greg about Dungeons and Dragons, gender-balance and building a team culture.
Caroline McCabe wrote her way around the world, not realising that she was learning the skills that would make her a content designer. Read her story.
Content designer, John, gives us his top tips to stop your to do list looking like a window into the abyss, with help from some Nobel laureates and Ron Swanson.
We've untacked the tinsel and tidied away the selection boxes ready for a lean, mean start to 2020. See what we've been up to this week.
It's been a long journey, but we've managed to bring service patterns off the wall and into the real world. Service designer, Bhupinder, tells us how.
We've decked County Hall with boughs of holly for our final weeknotes of 2019. Find out what we've been up to.
‘Design can’t fully exist until it’s put into practice’, service designer and PhD student at Maria Marinovic, talks about how her research in sustainable design is helping her work at Essex County Council.
Never mind the ballots, in Service Design we've been staying focused on delivering for the user. Find out what we've been up to this week.
Nic and Bhupinder gathered with other service designers at the Local #GovDesign Day in Birmingham. They fill us in on what they learned and how we succeed together when we share our stories.