Kate Ivey-Williams, Martin Jordan
Service Designers
Government Digital Service
@KateIW, @Martin_Jordan
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We’re from the
Government Digital
Service
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Before we start
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Innovation:
“A viable offering new to a specific
context and time, creating a user and
provider value”
—Vijay Kumar, IIT Institute of Design
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How we do design in
the government
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Who we are
What we do
How we do it
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What we do
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But government doesn’t make it easy for
users to understand services
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This is how users see services
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Sell a car
Start a
business
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Buy a
car
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Employ
someone
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Service patterns
It took me two
years to work
out what i
needed to
Look
after
children
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This is how we do it
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Service designers
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Interaction designers
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Graphic designers
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Content designers
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User researchers
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User research helps
us put users first
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Empathy
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Perspective
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Messy lives
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Technology is
not the centre
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User journeys give context:
●They contextualise everything from the user’s
perspective
●They are a way of seeing how everything
strings together to create the user’s
experience
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User journeys give context:
●The journey is bigger than the service
●The service contains content and transactions
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There are lots of
different takes on user
journeys
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A diagram that maps out a user’s journey
through a service over time
Time
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The horizontal axis (end-to-end)
has phases, activities, steps from the
user’s perspective.
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The vertical axis (front-to-back)
has whatever layers you need to include to
understand how the service works.
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There are 2 types of user journeys:
1.As-is / existing
2.To-be / future
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As-is journey mapping helps you understand
how things are now:
○ hypothetical journey map, pre-research
○ research-based journey map
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Future journey mapping helps you to design
the future:
○ working document up on a white board
○ communication tool
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Many parallels to your course task
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Take-aways and recommendations
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Discovery phase:
●Identify the user & who else is involved
●Uncover their motivations, needs & context
●Map their entire journey
●Reflect on what’s in it for them
(think policy intent vs. user needs)
●Find sweet spots for changing behaviour
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Questions
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Thanks!
Kate Ivey-Williams, Martin Jordan
Government Digital Service
@KateIW, @Martin_Jordan