Cross-government design community
The community for service, interaction and content designers working in and around the UK government, coordinated through the GOV.UK Service Manual.
You can find here
- a cross-government Slack
- regular community meetups
- guidance on joining from outside central government
Good for questions like
Related resources
The UK government's manual for designing and running public services: the Service Standard, guidance on discovery, alpha, beta and live, and on user research and service design.
An annual conference in Edinburgh for people designing public services, with workshops and talks drawn from across the UK and international public sectors.
The UK's national strategic body for design, home of the Double Diamond and the Systemic Design Framework.
The UK government's blog about design, written by the people doing it across departments. Honest accounts of what worked and what did not.
An occasional printed newspaper about service design, started by Martin Jordan in 2015, with short pieces from practitioners around the world. Most articles are also published online.
Gerry Scullion's podcast network on human-centred design, with a dedicated strand of conversations about service design and public services.