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A day in the life of a Service Designer in Defra

Posted by: Hannah Rutherford-Roke, Posted on: 14 November 2022 - Categories: Defra service design, Defra services, User centred design
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Interested in joining Defra as s Service Designer? Hannah Rutherford-Roke tells us about her role as a Senior Service Designer and why she chose to work for Defra.

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How showing the thing helped us simplify our MVP

Posted by: David Thomas, Delivery Manager, Posted on: 14 March 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
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...application. We then put these screens on the wall underneath the full process, to show how much less we could do. We managed to reduce 72 pages to 22 pages,...

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