by Lee Emery | Aug 27, 2020 | Digital Practice, Jobs
Our Design and Analysis team works across the entire council, designing inclusive products and services for thousands of Stockport residents. As our lead service designer, you’ll help us create seamless customer journeys for users, whatever channel or part of our...
by Lisa Kowalewski | Aug 10, 2020 | Digital Practice
When I started at the council about two and a half years ago (as the first explicit service designer), I knew very little about what my future in design and government would hold. I had come more or less straight out of university to find myself in an environment I...
by Holly Rae | Jul 31, 2020 | Collaboration, Digital Practice
We have been reflecting recently on what Digital means in Stockport. What does it mean for us as a Borough, as an organisation and as a team, and what does it mean in the context of our emerging One Stockport aspirations? When we signed the Local Digital Declaration...
by Emma Jemison | Jul 2, 2020 | Digital access, Digital Practice
Two weeks after the UK government imposed a nationwide lockdown, Stockport Council launched a helpline for Stockport’s most vulnerable people, to assist people to access what they needed to help them stay safe and well. The initial tech work required the...
by Stephen Hodson | Jun 18, 2020 | Digital Practice
In this second blog about our Service and Design patterns work we describe how we have created a new development tool that will allow us to deliver valuable software products faster and more efficiently and which has already proven its worth during the pandemic....
by Anna Walker | Jun 2, 2020 | Digital Practice
Over the past 8 months the digital team have been working on creating a reusable design pattern library to help create consistent ways to design and implement user journeys. As a council we offer a variety of different services, and it’s important that they are...