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Collaborative design: how content and interaction designers can work together to solve problems

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On the left a woman with shoulder length brown hair and wearing a grey jumper, on the right a man with short fair hair wearing a a white tshirt with a dark jumper and blue jacket,

Senior Content Designer Caroline Vickers and Senior Interaction Designer Joe Horton recently worked together on a GOV.UK service. They share how they found collaborative ways of working and the tools that worked best.

Check, check, check; new rod licence app continues to bring benefits

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Alt text: A picture showing a fish and containing text which says ‘environment agency, covered for two rods, non-migratory trout and coarse licence, you must carry this or proof of licence when fishing’.

Service Manager Joe Simpson explains how Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officers (FEOs) have been making leaps and bounds in licence checking, thanks to a new app designed and built by Defra’s ‘I Want to Fish’ digital team.

Plant exports: Five ways to communicate user research findings

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A series of post it notes that are stuck onto documents placed on the wall.

The ‘Apply for plant export certificates and inspections’ service has been in Public Beta since August 2021. Neil Johnson and Juliette Fournier from our Major Projects and Digital Delivery team explain how user research has been instrumental in enabling exporters applying for certificates and more to move plant goods abroad.

How mountain bike guiding makes me a better content designer

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Steph with her bike on the top of Snowdon, a mountain in Wales. Behind her, the sun is shining through clouds. Steph is wearing sunglasses, and a blue cycling helmet with a matching top.

Steph Duits threw all her energy into mountain bike guiding, running a successful mountain bike holiday company. And then she discovered content design. In this post, Steph reflects on transferable skills from the most unlikely places. With contributions from Content Designer Anna Scott.

Beyond incremental change: How (and why) we’re setting the pace for sustainable technology

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Will McGeehin, our Interim Deputy Director for Digital Technology Strategy, tells us how Defra has opened his eyes to the possibilities of truly sustainable technology and the many challenges that come with IT going green.