Four years into Policy Lab: the power of emergence and being open to opportunity
If you had told me four years ago, when I joined the Cabinet Office, that by 2018 we would have worked across 15 major government departments
Dr Andrea Siodmok
Andrea is Head of the Policy Lab, which is based in Government Innovation Group in the Cabinet Office.
Mapping service design and policy design
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I am often asked by designers for specific examples where design approaches have been used in the creation of policy. From a design perspective, the ‘concreteness’ of physical artefacts is much easier to describe, whereas both service design and policy …
The future policy-maker's bookshelf
You might remember when ‘selfie’ was declared the word of the year by the Oxford dictionaries. Shortly after, the term ‘shelfie’ (a photo of your bookshelf)
From best practice to next practice
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How new technologies are improving our tools for analysis and impact...
Why Labs are as much about mindset as toolset
Andrea Siodmok shares her thoughts from the back of an Uber, on how experiencing innovation is much better than just being told about it.
Design in policy making
...that a key measure of success was to reduce the time patients spent waiting.’* How radical the redesign ambition is determined in the policy, in the brief, designed into the...
Policy Lab gathers thoughts on the future
...are important, the big picture helps us identify patterns and the user perspective helps us identify meaning. For example, in the Lab we often talk about the importance of bringing...
Welcome to the Policy Lab
At a recent meeting with Ben Terrett (Director of Design at the Government Digital Service) I was reminded of the importance of sharing ideas. ‘You’ve got to blog,’ he said, so here is the Policy Lab’s first post. It also coincides with Nesta’s i-teams report, which is sharing best practice from around the world as …