by Matt Turner | Jan 23, 2019 | Digital Practice
One of the difficulties of using emergent skills, practices and service delivery frameworks – ways of working that are new, modern and a break from tradition – is that knowledge and expertise are often in short supply. Digital skills gap You may have heard...
by Lee Emery | Jan 15, 2019 | Digital Practice
When you hear the name ‘Digital by Design’ what do you think of? New technology or computer systems probably comes to mind. When we first started the project over 3 years ago the name seemed very apt. The word ‘design’ helped us focus on creating something new that...
by Aimee Teare | Dec 6, 2018 | Collaboration, Digital Practice
In May of this year NHS Digital in partnership with the Local Government Association launched the Social Care Digital Innovation Programme (SCDIP*). Local Authorities from across the country bid for £20,000 to take part in the discovery phase of the programme, to...
by Laura Hadley | Nov 16, 2018 | Digital Practice
Pair (not pear!) writing is a great tool to have in our content design toolbox. It usually involves a content designer and subject matter expert (SME) from the service, sitting together for an agreed amount of time. Sometimes an hour, sometimes many more. As a team...
by Aimee Teare | Nov 2, 2018 | Collaboration, Digital Practice, Enabling Independence
In July this year Digital by Design joined forces with colleagues in Adult Social Care to undertake a Discovery for a Technology Enabled Care project. It is the first time that staff in Adult Social Care had been involved in a Discovery process and it proved to be...
by Chris Anderson | Sep 18, 2018 | Digital Practice
Picture the scene. You’re at a restaurant having dinner with friends of friends and the small talking is flowing well. Then the question comes up “So what do you do for living?” I take a quick swig of red wine and politely reply, “I’m a Business Analyst”. This starts...
