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  • GovSite – a flexible WordPress theme developed by dxw

    We’ve found that for many of our products, we’re asked to implement very similar features again and again. We also find that many of these clients have pretty limited budgets, which makes it difficult to follow the service design manual process. User research is often the first thing that gets cut, which isn’t ideal. So,…

  • Talking snakes and mongooses at #bigwp

    Last night I gave a talk on plugin security at the Big Media & Enterprise WordPress London Meetup. It includes Indiana Jones (Why did it have to be snakes?!) and a cheeky plug for MongooseWP – our plugin security alerting service which will be launching soon. The talk seemed to go down well – at least…

  • Moving on

    At the end of March I’ll be moving on from dxw. When I was hired by dxw three years ago, I was the fifth staff member. My original job description was to focus on user experience and front-end web development, but as the company grew, my role evolved with it. Since then dxw has grown…

  • Introducing Alex

    Hi I’m Alex, and I’m the new designer/front-end developer. I’m really happy to be part of dxw  and I’m looking forward to working on design and front-end projects with the team and our clients. I designed and built my first website in 1999 – it was rubbish. But I stuck at it and consumed as…

  • An update on an impromptu campaign: two weeks on

    Just before Christmas, I read the Digital Services Framework tender documents, and I reeled in horror. I was pretty sceptical about the first iteration, and I explained those concerns, privately, to quite a few people. But in those conversations, everyone agreed the framework hadn’t come out very well. So I had hope that it would…

  • Does the CCS hand know what the GDS hand is doing? Is it interested?

    It’s been a very busy couple of weeks thinking, talking, tweeting and writing about the Digital Services Framework and how it should ideally work. I’ve been meaning to write a roundup post to go through all the comment that’s happened so far. I will get that done soon. But in the mean time, a story…