Jason Stockwell, Research Operations, reflects on the work done to develop a user research manual for Defra and the importance of consistency across user research.| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
Suzy Robinson, Head of Delivery Management (interim), shares her experiences at Civil Service Live 2025 and what she's learned from attending Civil Service Live over the past few years.| Defra digital, data, technology and security
Lucy Hartley, Head of Service Strategy, Ownership and Performance, and Lisa Jeffery, Design Manager, reflect on the work being done to build a shared understanding of services within Defra’s Digital, Data, Technology and Security teams.| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
Helen Eden, Programme Delivery Manager for Flood at Defra, celebrates the success of our Flood Digital Team, who have been recognised for their innovative work in delivering crucial flood risk information to help protect communities across the UK and plan for the future.| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
Tim Howard, Deputy Director for Major Projects, Cross-Cutting Technical Services, reflects on his experience of integrating generative AI into software development workflows.| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
Deputy Director for Digital Delivery Richard Baines reflects on designing environments for digital delivery. Moving away from hierarchical culture and change frameworks, he outlines Defra's emerging 'outcome delivery groups' model and how it's being rolled out across the group. If …| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
Ayesha Tinsley explains how her team improved the content community's resources board, in the last in our series on Defra content community projects.| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
Content designer Lauren Stopps writes about a project to improve the content team's internal review process.| Defra digital, data, technology and security
Senior content designer Louisa Mallon describes how her team planned and created a Defra style guide.| Defra digital, data, technology and security
David Caldwell, Defra’s Deputy Director for Digital Transformation, provides an update on the work underway to transform digital services in Defra. It has been a while since we last shared what we’re doing to transform our services. I took up …| defradigital.blog.gov.uk
In the second post of a two-part blog, content designers Natalie Smithson and Sandeep Dhaliwal report on the outputs of the recent hack day, led by Defra’s planet-centred design (PCD) team.| defradigital.blog.gov.uk