User researcher Jason Stockwell explains how, as a Participant Lead, his job is to make sure user researchers have the right processes in place to get access to participants for research rounds.
To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing some of our content design team at Defra's go-to accessibility tools and guides. We're all responsible for making sure our content and services are accessible, these are some of the resources we use to help with that.
In the first post of a two-part blog, content designers Natalie Smithson and Sandeep Dhaliwal look forward to today’s hack day, being led by Defra’s planet-centred design team - one of many activities for Services Week 2024.
On the annual United Nations International Day of Forests, John Wiggins and Robbie Wilson explain how research volunteers will be key to the effective implementation of important new UK Government legislation aimed at protecting the world’s forests.
Content designer Rob Finch and his team reflect on how bringing in user research can be beneficial at any stage of a project.
Graham Dickinson reflects on his civil service journey, a journey that began with the Fast Stream in 2008, which then propelled him to a senior leadership role via the Civil Service Senior Leaders development programme. I began my civil service …
Sarah Hoy, Deputy Director for Digital Transformation, tells us how our new Digital and Data Strategy will change the way we design, build, and run digital services in the future.
Jenny Taylor reflects on the work she’s been doing to develop a solution which she hopes will reduce our reliance on paper forms in the future.
On World Fisheries Day Dr Dominic Berry, a member of the Environment Agency’s’ ‘I Want to Fish’ team, reflects on a recently completed research project concerning recreational freshwater fisheries in Wales and England.
In Recycle Week Jenny Rogal and Polly Howden explain how the work they are doing to develop a new Local Authority Payments tool will ensure the tool meets the needs of the end users - local authorities.
