The future of ageing
...robust and more practical. At the end of the workshop we pitched our best idea to the group and fielded their difficult questions. The next step is to choose the...
Policy Lab
Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Exploring new ways of turning evidence into ideas
...the opposite? What would you do in 2040? Oh... hang on. These are hypothetical change cards that Policy Lab usually uses in quickfire brainstorming rounds to generate loads of -...
From deductive to abductive, Policy Lab investigates new ways of thinking about policy
Do you have an ‘I really don’t know’ policy challenge? Policy Lab can help.
Cards toolkit to help generate ideas and develop your policy project in an agile way
...and learn from others that have similarly been experimenting. Stay tuned for the outcome of that as we, well, iterate, this together. Here is the link to the change cards....
What do civil servants need to learn about user-centred design?
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Ulele Andrews, Posted on:
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Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques, Thought Pieces
User-centred design is increasingly on the agenda of government and Civil Service Learning is gearing up to deliver learning on user-centred design next year. Read about how they're using the Policy Lab to help design the course.
Ethnography in policymaking: Barriers and opportunities
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
...civil service. “We hope to get insights we wouldn’t get elsewhere and use them to create interventions we wouldn’t otherwise have thought of.” Barriers and challenges The culture within which...
Design in policy making
...practical tools and examples of design being used in policy making. We tend to spot design when it goes wrong: badly laid out forms, websites we can’t navigate, confusing signage,...
Open Policy 2015: Prototyping in government workshop
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Dr Lucy Kimbell, Posted on:
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Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
...roles in local government, Andrea showed how practical, low-cost prototyping helped reduce time to delivery, reduce wastage and costs from rolling out ideas that don’t work, and improve the likelihood...
Policy making through possible futures
I was really excited that Policy Lab was able to introduce another new technique into how Government engages the people in a debate about public policy. The subject was work...
Prototyping an online crime reporting service: a Policy Lab success story
Last week the Home Secretary announced that Surrey and Sussex would trial a prototype online crime reporting service which could save around £3.7 million if it is offered nationally on...