by Anna Walker | Feb 16, 2021 | Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
For our recent flooding project, we devised a new means of user experience testing that could be carried out under COVID-19 restrictions. In Part 1 of this blog we described how we set up and carried out remote user testing. Once the flooding user testing sessions...
by Emma Jemison and Anna Walker | Nov 27, 2020 | Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
As User Experience designers, one of the most important parts of our role is testing products and services with our users. This part of the design process is essential, as we need to find out if what we’re creating is usable and, if not, we need to understand how we...
by Thad Barker | Nov 10, 2020 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Practice
Over the last few years I have witnessed a rapid transformation on how we work with communities. By bringing communities closer to the service design process and embracing user testing we have services shaped with people, rather than for people. It’s a really simple...
by Stephen Hodson | Oct 9, 2020 | Digital Practice
Earlier this year, through the mapping and design of end to end journeys, we identified common service patterns, such as check, book, or pay for, that required the creation of a bespoke online form. In our earlier blog about Formbuilder we described how we have...
by Kieran Spruce and Luke Price | Sep 25, 2020 | Collaboration, Digital Practice
Stockport Council’s ‘Strategy and Reform’ and ‘Design’ teams were previously two separate teams that worked in similar ways. The Strategy and Reform team helps to deliver transformation and the strategic priorities of the authority. This involves providing programme...
by Lee Emery | Aug 27, 2020 | Digital Practice, Jobs
Our Design and Analysis team works across the entire council, designing inclusive products and services for thousands of Stockport residents. As our lead service designer, you’ll help us create seamless customer journeys for users, whatever channel or part of our...