Weeknotes 23-27 September
This week we’ve continued to think about accessibility, celebrating how far we’ve come and recognising what more there is to do. As we shared last week, essex.gov.uk now has a fabulous accessibility score of 99.6%.
show and tell
Show and tell notes: 27 March
It's been a little while since our last show and tell, and we've got plenty to share, including service patterns and some super positive user research. Take a look.
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 …
Show and tell notes: 5 December
This morning, in the penultimate show and tell of the year, Helen West gave a summary of where the team is on the essex.gov.uk project. Specifically she talked about the transition from Alpha to Beta.
Show and tell notes: 7 November
This week's show and tell was all about how we’re developing our core page designs (our homepage, landing pages and content pages) and our Information Architecture (how content is structured within the site). This has involved a lot of user …
Show and tell notes: 4 July
This week’s show and tell was about the alpha Essex work, the project to consolidate Essex County Council’s disparate web estate into one single, user-focussed site. We were in the ‘innovation space’, across the way from our usual home in …
Day 5, Futures Academy: Telling the story
We made it to day five! After our final stand up the team shared their experiences from yesterday of prototyping with Essex residents and thought about what they’d want to do next to further test their ideas. We spent the …
Day 3, Futures Academy: Using research to inspire ideas
Great to see new faces at this morning’s stand up. The team are looking forward to seeing more members of Corporate Development and the wider organisation at tomorrow’s stand up and Friday’s show and tell. Our first activity was to …
Show and tell notes: 20 June
This week’s show and tell focussed on things we’re doing to better understand our users. Nic Ward and Helen West presented the User testing lab workshops they, and other members of ECC, have been doing and James Pallister & Sheila …