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@benholliday #govdesign DESIGN IS A GOOD IDEA

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@benholliday #govdesign 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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@benholliday #govdesign Making things digital 
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@benholliday #govdesign Making things digital is employing the culture, mindset, practices, processes, skills and technologies of the internet era Tom Loosemore (adapted)

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@benholliday #govdesign Digital is something you are, not something you do Janet Hughes - bit.ly/digital-org

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@benholliday #govdesign PURPOSE

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@benholliday #govdesign Everything we do is about changing lives by providing security, extending opportunity and giving people in our society the support they need

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@benholliday #govdesign This is the real challenge: An organisation that delivers services organising itself around the needs 
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@benholliday #govdesign TEAMS

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@benholliday #govdesign Any creative process needs clarity and focus

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@benholliday #govdesign …creativity isn’t about making additions; it’s about making subtractions. Ideas need honing, simplifying and focussing Will Gompertz

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@benholliday #govdesign Design team of 40+ people specialising in service design, interaction design, content design and front end development

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@benholliday #govdesign Building a design community benholliday.com/building-a-design-community

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@benholliday #govdesign 1. Make sure everyone can talk to each other 2. Give everyone the opportunity to meet face-to-face 3. Encourage everyone to work in the open

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@benholliday #govdesign Everyone should be able to 
 talk about their work. This gives visibility to everything that we’re working on, and encourages collaboration benholliday.com/building-a-design-community

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@benholliday #govdesign LEADERSHIP

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@benholliday #govdesign Does your organisation 
 have design leadership?

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@benholliday #govdesign The only way for you 
 to lead is by example

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@benholliday #govdesign Design leadership, the secret to getting things done: being pragmatic (you can’t win every battle today), and optimistic (everything is worth fighting for)

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@benholliday #govdesign CULTURE

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@benholliday #govdesign Culture is everything we do, 
 how we do it, our intentions, and how we work together to make it happen

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@benholliday #govdesign Culture is the result of collective, small, actions

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@benholliday #govdesign benholliday.com/broken-windows

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@benholliday #govdesign LANGUAGE

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@benholliday #govdesign Be deliberate with 
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@benholliday #govdesign The goal should be to remove anything, including language, that creates barriers when working on a public service benholliday.com/the-problem-with-customer

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@benholliday #govdesign We call it user research not user testing. We test our design, our words and our ideas. We don’t test our users Leisa Reichelt userresearch.blog.gov.uk/its-user-research- not-user-testing

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@benholliday #govdesign FOCUS

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@benholliday #govdesign If we’re not communicating well with each other, it’s unlikely we’re communicating well with people using our services Melanie Cannon

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@benholliday #govdesign Start with ‘why’. Everything we work on gets started for a reason. Then move on to ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘how’

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@benholliday #govdesign MISTAKES

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@benholliday #govdesign Take small risks 
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@benholliday #govdesign The greatest enemy of success is the attempt to fortify against failure Ed Catmull (co-founder Pixar)

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@benholliday #govdesign Ways to manage failure: • prioritise rituals of doing • experiment more • shorten the feedback loop

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@benholliday #govdesign Design at its best frames the unusual and celebrates diversity. Its mistakes make it human. It’s made up of complex emotions

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@benholliday #govdesign Cows on the path. 
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@benholliday #govdesign COLLABORATION

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@benholliday #govdesign If you care about design then don’t worry about who gets the credit

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@benholliday #govdesign What’s your campfire, or what
 draws people together in 
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@benholliday #govdesign …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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@benholliday #govdesign JOY

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@benholliday #govdesign Design has a unique opportunity to bring joy into the world. The question is always ‘why not’?

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@benholliday #govdesign Joy is always found in the detail of application and experience

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@benholliday #govdesign Enjoy the size of the problem benholliday.com/learning-to-enjoy-the-size-of-the-problem

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@benholliday #govdesign …the more seriously we take things the more ridged or unimaginative our work can become benholliday.com/learning-to-enjoy-the- size-of-the-problem

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@benholliday #govdesign YOU

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@benholliday #govdesign Finding your edge gives you a focus. It makes everything more real

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@benholliday #govdesign We do our best work when we have something to lose (even if it’s just our reputation). This means accountability for outcomes and learning to work through failure

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@benholliday #govdesign You earn the extreme moments of optimism from the daily struggles we all fight our way through Bruce Springsteen

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@benholliday #govdesign digital.dwp.gov.uk/careers @DWPDigital benholliday.com @benholliday THANKS