Starting at Essex County Council: My first six months as a Junior User Researcher
Essex County Council's Essex Digital Service| Essex Digital Service
Essex County Council's Essex Digital Service| essexdigitalservice.blog.essex.gov.uk
Something special happens in a small corner of Edinburgh every year. When the comedy fans and culture vultures dissipate after the summer’s festival, a new mob comes to town. Instead of the echoes of laughter and applause, something else fills …| Essex Digital Service
We ran a design sprint over five consecutive days in February 2025. We’ll share the outcomes from the sprint in another blog. Here we’ll be exploring running the sprint itself, what went well and what we’d do differently next time. …| Essex Digital Service
At Essex County Council, we now have several websites on the LocalGov Drupal (LGD) platform. These websites are managed by editors from within their respective services. Some have managed web content before, for others this is a new responsibility. We’re …| Essex Digital Service
What we learned when we changed our web platform's hosting and support arrangements. Why we needed to do this We’ve done a lot of work on our websites since we first started to adopt Local Gov Drupal (LGD) in 2022. …| Essex Digital Service
Have you made any new year’s resolutions? I did. I made one. Go to the gym more? Nope, not that. Drink more water? Nope, should do, but not that either. Make consent forms better? That’s the one. I enlisted the …| Essex Digital Service
Find out how our product managers, Will, Jen, and Sucharitha, fared during their day of discovery, companionship, and unexpected turns at the Local Gov Drupal Unconference.| Essex Digital Service
Adam Spencer details how the User Researchers within Essex County Council work with staff and residents to gather data that helps the council make important changes and improvements to its services by exploring and validating user needs.| Essex Digital Service
The short answer is no. People who need them use their own translation tools. But, you can write the content in a way that those tools will translate well. Where we know we need one or two specific languages for …| Essex Digital Service
Essex County Council's Essex Digital Service| Essex Digital Service
Essex County Council's Essex Digital Service| Essex Digital Service
