by Jacob Brown | Sep 6, 2018 | Digital access, Digital Practice
As a UX Designer starting out in Digital by Design with the Content team I would like to share my experiences of UX (user experience designer) and Content and how they work together to produce great digital products. Starting out in Content When I came to Content over...
by Lisa Kowalewski | Aug 13, 2018 | Digital Practice
Previous blogs have mentioned our move away from a distinct digital programme to an agile organisation harnessing digital and other tools to meet the needs of our users in the most cost effective way. We have made significant progress in improving the relationship...
by Steve Skelton | Aug 3, 2018 | Digital Practice
When we established our Digital by Design Programme three years ago we were clear from the outset that we would take a different approach to digital transformation. We wanted to grow our own in-house capability, create some of our own software and train our own...
by Cllr Elise Wilson | Jul 17, 2018 | Collaboration, Digital Practice, Digital Stockport
People are at the heart of everything we do in our Digital by Design programme. We may be delivering new technology but our end goal is to use digital to improve the customer experience. While the technology plays a key role, it is the people who matter most: the...
by Lee Emery | Jun 12, 2018 | Digital Practice
Collaboration and communication are at the heart of Agile ways of working, so it’s somewhat ironic that agile terminology like ‘kanban’ and ‘standups’ can inadvertedly put up barriers. In this blog I aim to bust some agile jargon and show some simple steps you can...
by Lisa Kowalewski | May 24, 2018 | Digital Practice
During my first few weeks at Stockport Council I noticed that many of the key principles and methods of service design were being applied, but not necessarily identified or externalized as such. This not only makes it more difficult to demonstrate the value service...