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How to carry out user research with colleagues

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We recently carried out research among our colleagues to understand how they felt about their day-to-day working experiences. Here's how we did it.

Why user researchers and service designers should be best friends

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The Government Digital Service has a long history of interaction design and user research working collaboratively. Here's 5 things we do well together to meet user needs and deliver great services.

Learning about identity checking across government

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Last month, 18 government organisations came together to talk about user needs around identity checking. Learn more about what was discussed, the shared challenges we discovered and how they're being tackled.

How cross-government user profiles of civil servants can help you

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We’ve worked with colleagues across government to create a set civil servant profiles. In this post we explain how we created the profiles and how they can help you provide better services within your organisation.