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What’s the role of design in policy?
By Jasmine Robinson: It’s a big question for a short blog post, but over the course of my three month placement with Policy Lab, it is one that has been constantly on my mind. The Lab is a mix of experienced …
Policy Lab
Policy Lab is bringing new policy techniques to the departments across the civil service, helping design services around people’s experience, using data analytics and new digital tools.
Designing workshops for everyone
We have recently been supporting the Housing Minister, Alok Sharma, and the Department for Communities and Local Government as they travel around the country to listen to the experiences, concerns and ideas of social housing residents - all to inform …
Prototyping for the Private Rented Sector
It’s important to pack light when testing prototypes across the country. As well as being practical, you have to leave weighty assumptions on the platform at, in our case, Euston or Kings Cross. Over the last few months Policy …
Mapping service design and policy design
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)
Team news
A welcome is in order this week... You might have seen our advertisement for a new Policy Designer earlier in the year. We had an amazing response and were privileged to meet many talented and interesting people. Today, we’re delighted …
Designing for the private rented sector
A few weeks ago we spent a productive day co-designing possible interventions which might help improve experiences of the private rented sector (PRS). With an incredibly energetic group of people representing tenants and landlords, we shared insights from ethnographically-inspired research …
From best practice to next practice
How new technologies are improving our tools for analysis and impact...
On prototyping and putting something out there...
Prototyping might be worth a try. Just putting it out there…
On blogging, silence and contemplation
For obvious reasons, we will be going quiet on our blog over the next few weeks. Ok, so it's hardly been noisy recently. To be honest, we've been busy doing stuff and we've got a little bit out of the …