Accessibility: designing an inclusive and barrier-free user experience

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On the left, a minimalistic cartoon avatar of Christopher, a white man with messy brown hair, glasses, and a beard, wearing a bright pink hoodie. Centre, Portrait photo of Chris, a white male with not much cropped brown hair and beard, wearing a checked purple shirt. On the right, Anime style avatar of Zico, a dark skinned man with straight black hair crossing part of his face, and brown eyes, wearing a grey t-shirt and white hooded unzipped grey jacket. Not shown, lots of freckles.

Chris Jenkins, Zico Harris and Christopher J from the Defra Digital, Data and Technology Accessibility Team asked an artificially intelligent large language model a question around this topic. When it served up a generic blog, they decided to write their own instead.

National Storytelling Week: How content design has helped my creative writing

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Melissa Massey on her computer with a her cat sat next to her

For National Storytelling Week, Melissa Massey shares how content design has helped her with her creative writing including research and scoping out work, understanding the audience you are writing for, looking at the structure and user journey and language used.

Volunteering: Part two - how our three days a year make a difference

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Brightly coloured cards spread out on a table.

In the second part of this blog on volunteering, Tania MacDonnell and Emy Yeboah, from Defra’s User Centred Design team, share their experience of volunteering and what inspired them to take part in a volunteering day.

Volunteering: Part one - trees and canals

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Bluetit sat on a person's hand

To mark international volunteering day, Defra’s user centred design (UCD) team talk about what inspired them to take part in volunteering days and how they went. This is our first instalment of a two-part blog on volunteering.