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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...
View ArticleThe 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) became an instagram hit. Looking at other...
View ArticleA look ahead to the London Design Festival
On 16 September, design is coming to town. We can't wait - the programmes for both the London Design Festival and the Service Design Fringe look amazing. It's a great chance to catch up with all our...
View ArticleMapping 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...
View ArticlePrototyping 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...
View ArticleDesigning 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...
View ArticleWhat’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. Our tools in action The...
View ArticleFour 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 on over 40 policy projects, working with over 6,000 public...
View ArticleThe Open Policy Making toolkit
Vasant blogged a little while ago about refreshing the open policy making toolkit. Thanks to those of you who told us how you were using it - it’s great to see our tools and materials in so many...
View ArticleCreative soup
Where does creativity come from? What are the conditions we need to create to encourage it within the civil service, and indeed in all workplaces? As Samar Shams argues, most of us don’t realise we’re...
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