by Anna Walker, Laura Hadley, Nicola Deeney and Zivile Petraviciute | Mar 21, 2023 | Digital access, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Services Week is an annual celebration of end-to-end service design, focused on improving public services. Returning for the fifth time, Services Week 2023 will take place 20 to 24 March 2023 and the theme for this year is ‘Designing for Uncertain Times’. The last few...
by Adrian Davies | Apr 13, 2022 | Architecture, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Offensive Cyber activity has increased dramatically over the past weeks, with multiple Russian Government and state backed hacking groups taking down Ukrainian banking and Government websites and services. As international sanctions against Russia start to bite, it is...
by Matt Scholes | Mar 30, 2022 | Digital access, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Us: “We want to design our form to have one question per page” Suppliers and peers: “What on earth for? Are you mad?” Sometimes, we find ourselves questioning what we’re doing because many other voices say it’s odd or unusual, simply because it is...
by Craig Hughes | Jan 25, 2022 | Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Welcome to the latest blog for our Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government/ Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (MHCLG/DLUHC) sponsored Family Context project. It’s been a while since we last published a blog, as we had to re-prioritise...
by Kieran Spruce | Aug 11, 2021 | Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
Through my involvement with different projects, I have enjoyed many opportunities to collaborate with talented people in different roles, both within the digital team and outside of it. I hope by sharing experiences from some of those projects, this may be useful to...
by Kieran Spruce | Jun 21, 2021 | Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
When I first started out at Stockport Council I had very little knowledge of what Service Design really was. I had a degree in Industrial Design and initially applied for a role as a User Experience (UX) designer, but a fellow Brunel graduate suggested that I would be...