Blog

  • 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…

  • 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…