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How to improve user needs

Posted by: Kieron Humphrey, Posted on: 22 January 2016 - Categories: Defra content design, Defra digital
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Advice for SMEs and policy leads on writing strong user needs and what help you can get from the Defra content team user needs panel.

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User needs: how they lead to better guidance

Posted by: Jonathan Richardson, Posted on: 2 November 2015 - Categories: Defra content design

Would you read government guidance if you didn't have to? "Of course not," says the average citizen. That's why every new page that the Smarter Guidance team creates has to have a user need. If there's no need for someone …

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