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- 1. Types of design Careers in design GDS
- 3. Interaction design Service design Graphic design Content design GDS
- 4. Front-end development Interaction design Service design Graphic design Content design User research GDS
- 5. NO UX? GDS
- 6. Specialisms are just a way of explaining your strengths GDS
- 7. Specialisms aren’t a list of things you’re allowed to do They’re a way of understanding what a team needs right now GDS
- 8. When you collaborate with people who do different things to you, you pick up new skills GDS
- 9. Back end Front end Making Interaction Journey Process and system Organisation and purpose Comms design Turn a front-end into an actual working system Create production quality HTML, CSS and JS Sketch in code. Create and test HTML prototypes Design the way users interact with a service Design the way users move through a service Design cost effective business processes and systems Design and communicate the organisational purpose Design information for web, print and other mediums Front end developer Interaction designer Service designer Graphic designer GDS
- 10. Types of design in government Not including content design
- 11. Graphic design Interaction design Service design @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 12. Service designer Better at designing what the thing is GDS Interaction designer Better at designing how the thing works Graphic designer Better at explaining what the thing does
- 13. Graphic design
- 14. Graphic designers create a common design language for government @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 16. This common design language allows us to scale and constantly change GOV.UK whilst remaining consistent and identifiable @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 17. Graphic design is an enabler for content and interaction design @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 18. Ensuring content is legible and easy to read and interactions are clearly understood @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 22. Interaction designers design the detailed actions a user needs to make in order to use a service @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 23. While not losing site of the bigger picture @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 24. It’s not just about the ‘UI’ @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 25. It’s as much about time... and the exact pacing of a number of questions within a transaction @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 26. They refine and shape user journeys @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 27. Help remove complexity where it isn’t needed @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 28. Always ensuring the usability and accessibility of the service @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 29. Service design
- 30. ‘Service designers design services’ – Louise Downe 2016 @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 31. from end to end back to front in all channels @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 32. Most government services are a collection of isolated transactions and activities @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 33. Our service designers work like archeologists... @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 34. piecing together the fragments of a service @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 35. Working out the transitions between physical, offline, and digital transactions @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 36. Working out how that service needs to change to meet user needs @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 37. sometimes this is a radical rethinking sometimes this is a more gentle reduction in complexity @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 38. User research
- 39. We separate user research and design @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 40. User researchers help their teams to learn about users so they can make a better service @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 41. Interviews users Runs usability testing Write research questions Helps team analyse research Defines user needs @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 42. They do continuous learning @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 43. User research is a team sport @louisedowne GDSGDS
- 46. It’s not just how good you are It’s about how you work GDS
- 52. Working with ‘the thing’, not creating artifacts GDS
- 53. Think about what type of designer you need Not just for the project team, but across your entire design team GDS
- 54. Ask to see their design work (two examples at least) Talk about their design work GDS
- 55. What did they get wrong? GDS
- 56. A good online portfolio should let you evaluate the designer’s practical skills GDS
- 57. The interview lets you explore how well they engage with the client and user’s needs GDS
- 58. Good designers... Explain their work Work well with others Work in the open Can negotiate Understand the internet GDS