Content design is a collaborative discipline, so when you’re the only content designer in your digital team, it can be lonely. You don’t have that content buddy to bounce ideas off, get a second pair of eyes on your work …
Homeworking during the pandemic had its benefits for some of us (warm slippers, no commute) and its pitfalls (never switching off, homeschooling, too close to the biscuit tin). But at least we were all in the same boat, right? Actually …
Two weeks ago, Minister Alex Chalk welcomed a panel of experts from across the tech community and criminal justice space to take part in a roundtable event, discussing opportunities for tech innovation to help reduce crime. The panel shared insights …
Our annual Justice Services Conference usually takes place in person and gives us an opportunity to bring our teams together from around the country. But what do you do when you have a global pandemic and the majority are working …
I have recently started a new job as Senior Frontend Developer at the Ministry of Justice and I wanted to share a few details of my opening time here. Remote Working I have been remote working for the past year …
We attended the Service Design Fringe Festival in October last year and were talking to jobseekers, as we’re currently looking to hire a couple of service designers and interaction designers at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). I had 60 seconds …
Hello, I’m Scott and in this post I’m going to explain how: I started using discovery we improved discovery at the MoJ we define and review discovery at the MoJ. You might know me as Head of Product but I …
There were more than 50% of contractors in technical roles when I joined MoJ in April 2018. In a technical workforce of about 200 that’s a lot of contractors. Hiring technical people in government is hard, they said. Let’s find …
We recently contributed to the ‘Ask users for bank details’ pattern to the GOV.UK Design System, as a team of three: content designer (Amanda Kerry), interaction designer (Adam Silver) and user researcher (Gemma Hutley). Earlier this year, we worked on …
