Blog posts by Jane Hewitt

  • Event: Make the most of DOS

    Join techUK, Crown Commercial Service, Advice Cloud and us on August 2nd for a special DOS 3 supplier update. Find out how to make the most out of the DOS 3 framework! Digital Outcomes and Specialists 3 (DOS 3) framework is scheduled to open in July. What will it look like? What are the changes from […]

  • Farewell, Ben

    This week, we were sad to say goodbye to our head of technology, Ben Griffiths. Ben was dxw’s first head of technology and he helped us grow and nurture the team as we’ve taken on bigger, more complex work. During his time with us, Ben worked across all our projects and we have been lucky […]

  • Service Design in Government – but what is service design?

    Service Design in Government, the conference for anyone involved in designing or commissioning services for the public sector, has kicked off today in Edinburgh. The conference brings together the very best speakers from both the public and private sector, who work in this space – sharing techniques and ideas via workshops and case studies over […]

  • The Techies winners! Best place for developers to work

    Last month we were thrilled to win The Techies award for ‘Best Place for Developers to Work‘, and were treated to an evening at the beautiful M by Montcalm hotel in Shoreditch to celebrate the great work the winners (and shortlisted companies) have done over the past year. But what is it that makes dxw a […]

  • Today I learnt

    If you’re a previous reader of our blog, you may have seen some previous TiL posts before. At dxw, we use Slack to communicate internally; mostly for sharing information about current projects we’re working on, or for recruitment, events we’re planning and more. However, we have a couple of less serious channels where we like […]

  • Making user research count

    Join us on March 13th for a user research workshop with Hilary Chan and Vita Mangan Format Interactive workshop with thought element and hands-on activities What you’ll learn Description Conducting user research is fundamental to designing good services, products, and experiences. This means speaking to your users, testing with your users, understanding the environment of […]