User experience and research

We're Building the Future of User-Centred Design at HMCTS

User-centred design plays an important role in helping us create services that are simpler more accessible. In this blog, we explore how our content and interaction designers are improving justice services across HMCTS, and why we're recruiting senior leaders to help shape the future of services used by millions of people.

UCD at HMCTS: How we’re strengthening user-centred design

User-centred design helps us create justice services that work for the people who use and deliver them. Learn how HMCTS is growing its design capability to support service improvement, build expertise and shape the future of justice services.

Bringing justice stakeholders together to improve services for court users

Over 75 stakeholders from our Public Engagement Groups recently came together for a day of collaboration and presentations, sharing invaluable feedback to help us improve services and ensure court users can access justice when they need it.

The DARTS challenge: modernising our most complex court system

This two-part blog series looks back at our behind-the-scenes technological transformation. Part two focuses on our biggest challenge: migrating the Digital Audio Recording Transcription and Storage (DARTS) system – one of the largest data migrations HMCTS has ever undertaken.

Leaving the legacy behind: our journey to modernise court technology   

This two-part blog series looks back at our behind-the-scenes technological transformation. In part one, we look at the overall modernisation journey – why it was necessary, the scale of the challenge and what it means for justice delivery.

Supporting justice in action: how staff delivered urgent technical support for a high-profile trial 

When an urgent request arrived on the eve of a major murder trial, colleagues from across HMCTS worked together to deliver a critical technical solution. They protected a witness’s identity, upheld the principle of Open Justice and made sure the trial could proceed fairly.

Vision to verdicts: Introducing new courts and tribunals

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From Blackpool's new courthouse to London's state-of-the-art City of London law courts on Fleet Street, major developments are transforming justice facilities across England and Wales, delivering accessible, modern buildings for all.