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Supersized. Making design work in large organisations

Supersized. Making design work in large organisations

Glug Reading. July 2016

Ben Holliday

July 08, 2016
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  1. @benholliday Glug Reading
    Glug Reading July 2016
    Supersized. Making
    design work in large
    organisations

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    Hello

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    UK’s largest public service
    department.
    Design team of 40+ people
    specialising in service design,
    interaction design, content
    design and front end
    development

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    Designers
    Designing end-to-end user
    journeys for a service, across
    digital and other channels.
    Designing each user interaction
    as part of a service

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    User researchers
    Understanding the problem.
    Making sure teams continuously
    learn about users as part of an
    iterative design process

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    Content designers
    Responsible for all the content
    in a service. Making sure
    appropriate content is shown
    to users at the right place and
    in the best format

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    Front-end developers
    The link between people and
    technology. Testing solutions
    with end-users through to
    production ready code. A
    strong focus on accessibility

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    Data scientists
    Supporting discovery with
    evidence. Enabling data and
    hypothesis-driven design to
    improve live services

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    Does your organisation 

    have design leadership?

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    Design is everything that 

    your product does. It’s also
    the service around your
    product. How it’s sold,
    distributed and supported

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    For traditional corporates, customers
    are not the end user, they have
    distributors and retailers …there’s
    this huge disconnect where they're
    oriented around servicing someone
    who’s not the end-user
    Matt Webb (interconnected.org)

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    “…it was a good experience”
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    1. Culture

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    To deliver a great user experience…
    we need to get the design right
    we need to get the strategy right
    we need to get the organisation right

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    benholliday.com/broken-windows
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    2. Collaboration

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    gov.uk/service-manual/user-centred-design/resources/patterns

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    Communities of practice are
    groups of people who share a
    concern or a passion for something
    they do and learn how to do it
    better as they interact regularly
    Emily Webber (emilywebber.co.uk)

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    Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team
    DM
    Front End
    Dev
    Front End
    Dev
    Health & Disability
    DM DM DM DM
    Content
    design
    Content
    design
    Interaction
    Design
    Interaction
    Design
    Retirement
    DM DM DM
    User Centred
    Design

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    Team Team Team Team Team Team Team Team
    Front End
    Dev
    Front End
    Dev
    Health & Disability
    Content
    design
    Content
    design
    Interaction
    Design
    Interaction
    Design
    Retirement
    User Centred
    Design

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    3. Diversity

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    Encouraging diversity of
    ideas is making sure that
    the only constraint is 

    the problem

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    Think of starting as being
    heavier than any combined
    weight of evidence you 

    can gather
    benholliday.com/the-weight-of-starting

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    4. Empathy

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    5. Don’t worry who gets
    the credit

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    …move from ‘everyone
    wants to solve the problem’
    to ‘everyone wants the
    problem to be solved’
    benholliday.com/everyone-wants-to-solve-the-problem

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    1. Start with culture
    2. Help people realise they’re better off working
    with others
    3. Encourage people to think for themselves
    4. Introduce empathy as a tool for understanding
    the world
    5. Don’t worry who gets the credit
    benholliday.com/everyone-wants-to-solve-the-problem

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    Supersized. 

    Go big or go home

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    Glug Reading
    @benholliday

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    Go big. Push hard for 

    real design leadership

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    We’re hiring:

    digital.dwp.gov.uk/careers
    benholliday.com
    @benholliday

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