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  • Housing in crisis: how can design help?

    Last week, I attended  ‘Design on the inside’, where five brilliant people spoke up about their experience and involvement in solving difficult social challenges. The topic was “Housing in crisis – how can design help?” Food for thought:  Get passionate people together and let them share and discuss their experiences, challenges on how they work…

  • My first week at dxw

    Well hello everyone! This is my second day at dxw. I’m still finding my feet. But I’ve been made to feel very welcome and the excellent induction materials have been very easy to work through. I’ve joined dxw as Head of User Research. So I’ll be looking to develop the user research practice here, help…

  • Introducing Olivia

    Hi Everyone, My name is Olivia and I am a Trainee Operations Engineer at dxw. I changed my career path from from office administration into technology because I was always the go-to person for IT support although that was not my initial role. I decided to take a career break which allowed me to explore…

  • A new head of research at dxw

    We’re thrilled to announce our latest addition to the dxw team – Head of User Research, John Waterworth. John joins us from central government where he was head of the cross-government user research community. His work was to improve user research practices across government and build the growing community of user researchers in departments and…

  • SPA Conference Report: Day 3

    DAY 3 Well what would you do next…? – John Armstrong-Prior Making decisions is one of the most painful areas for me, in life and in work, so I felt I had to go to the workshop that would test and exercise this. It’s a constant battle whether to practice and exercise the things I…

  • Making the most of DoS3: a techUK event

    Last week, techUK hosted a group of digital service suppliers to inform them on how to make the most of DoS3 and all three speakers shared some great insights for anyone looking to do business on the framework. CCS Firstly we heard from Niall Quinn, the director of Strategic Technology for CCS, who discussed the…