Joining up the grey cells: update
Back in June, William Barker from DCLG was our very first guest author on the blog - he's back with an update on the Grey Cells project. Top down thinking...
Back in June, William Barker from DCLG was our very first guest author on the blog - he's back with an update on the Grey Cells project. Top down thinking...
...markets. Liverpool’s empower: leveraging local assets to develop sustainable community-based power generation. Business and entrepreneurialism ideas Manchester’s retaining young talent in the north: a business- and industry-led careers service and...
...HMRC. Young people do not get the card anymore - just a letter containing the number. Lots of these are getting thrown away or lost – last year HMRC had...
...a mocked-up web page giving new regulations to a staged online chat discussing the policy - gave us invaluable insights into tenants’ and landlords’ perspectives. We learnt a lot about...
...the early excitement of 'nudge', but behavioural economics still has much to add. The Indian Government is crowdsourcing ideas online. Rob Miller responds to David Briggs' Think Digital' seminar. Iceland...
...them (e.g. a new network rail map, a ticket buying/selling app, electronic noticeboards for autonomous vehicles at rural stations, online magazines showing additional services). All the objects were ambiguous enough...
...houses) and to see the impact these would have by 2050. For the first time, the team published the model and its evidence base online, making it possible for all...
...if you don’t like them or grow out of them, a bit like you can online. But more importantly, we are now using speculative design as a way of exploring...
User-centred design (UCD) is increasingly on the agenda of government. The Government Digital Service (GDS) has consistently championed user needs - see GDS head Mike Bracken's post. Policy Lab is...
...the issues raised, and asked Policy Lab for some advice. Speculative design - or critical design - is another innovative design tool that Policy Lab is supporting departments to experiment...