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  • What do we do to make dxw a great place to work?

    I’m really chuffed that we won the Best Place to Work (SME) award at the Digital Tech Leaders Awards last week. At the awards dinner, one of our dining companions asked why dxw is a good place to work. I think the answer has two parts. The principles I believe that a team does its…

  • Introducing Gaz…

    Hey. I’m Gaz, and I’ve recently joined dxw as a designer and front-end developer. I’m here because I believe technology can bring about real change. I’m enthusiastic about rapid prototyping, simplicity, learning, and collaboration. In previous roles, I worked on fully-fledged production applications, prototypes to demonstrate and validate ideas, and internal tools to improve the…

  • Bridging the geek/policy wonk divide

    Last week I was at One Team Government, an event to bring together digital teams and policy folk to talk about how to make government more effective. I went to a fascinating session, suggested by @jargonautical, about the digital geek/policy wonk divide. It’s a pattern I’ve often seen, especially in security and assurance work. People…

  • Making the Most of Digital Social Innovation (DSI) at London Tech Week

    Earlier this month I was lucky enough to land a ticket for the ‘Making the Most of Digital Social Innovation’ session being run as part of London Tech Week. Taking place at Nesta, the two panels focused on how organisations are using digital social innovation (DSI) to provide new ways to deliver public services and…

  • Today I learned (or learnt!)…

    Today I learned – TIL We have a Slack channel, which I’m sure most of you have, which is dedicated to sharing cool hints and tips that we have found out during our working day.  This is the TIL channel and it sometimes throws up some pretty useful things as well as some pretty obvious…