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  • Digital procurement opportunities and how to improve them: notes from the 3rd DOS CoP

    Problems with Digital Outcomes and Specialists opportunities: practical things buyers can do to make things easier for supplier and get better bids

  • Introducing Laura

    Hi, I’m Laura and I’ve just finished my 6th week as a developer at dxw. I’ve been a developer for nearly 19 years. I started in September 1999 as a junior web developer at Southwark College, and my most recent role was as a Ruby on Rails developer for a blockchain fintech startup called Bitpesa.…

  • UK Health Camp 2018

    Earlier this month, we headed up to Manchester to take part in and sponsor UK Health Camp 2018. UK Health Camp brings together a variety of individuals, all passionate about initiating and implementing better healthcare practices and services in the UK. Having worked with  The Department of Health & Social Care, NHS England and on…

  • Q&A Fridays: User Research

    Last week we launched our ‘Q&A Fridays’ where we ask one of our in-house experts to take over our Twitter account and answer our followers’ questions on a particular theme. As we’ve just welcomed our new Head of User Research, John Waterworth, to the team, it was fitting that the first topic was User Research. In…

  • Taking dxw to the North

    After two years as a civil servant, I have now joined the dxw team. In some ways it was a hard choice – I had committed myself to help change the way that government does technology and leaving felt like giving up on the wonderful colleagues that I left to carry on that mission. But…

  • 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…