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  • Cyber UK 2017 Conference – Part 1: Security is a team sport

    Earlier this month Harry and I attended the second edition of the Cyber UK conference  in Liverpool, hosted by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/) Across three days of talks, workshops, networking, and hacking challenges (which we won!) we heard a lot of ideas and opinions about the state of information security in the…

  • Insight and tips on running effective moderated online usability testing

    Why we did it We recently re-visited our collective approach to user research and worked on a new product vision with Thames Valley Housing Association (TVHA). One of the actions that came out of this work was the need to run some usability testing for the repairs service. We came across a number of practical…

  • International Women’s Day #BeBoldForChange

    International Women’s Day #BeBoldForChange Here at dxw we celebrate equality and diversity and believe that gender should not have an influence on how you are treated. It doesn’t matter if you’re binary, non-binary or anyone in between. We recognise is that there is still gender inequality in the world we live in and we want…

  • Me voy

    Sadly, this will be my last day at dxw. I’m off to a new country with no real plan other than to try to live a new life. Actually that’s not quite true because I have always had this idea in the back of my mind to try and live out the “good life”, the…

  • How we do agile research analysis

    Agile analysis shapes our research Conducting research for agile projects means that we need to work fast, include the whole team and provide clients with opportunities to get involved. We embed research in all our work and remain flexible in our approach. This means sometimes we’re working on a full on eight-week discovery phase and…

  • Keep going!

    Vanessa and I went to a Women in Digital event hosted by the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS). PDS invited us as we built and host their blog, which is actually one of the tools PDS is using to encourage diversity and hire more women and people from minority groups. Along with government departments, suppliers and charities,…