As a public servant, I'm trialling writing weekly notes to let people see what I do. #weeknotes #govdesign
This week: Vertigo
antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/14...

Interesting job here for a UK-based user researcher who wants to work on something that matters led by the wonderful @cathydutton.co.uk
#GovDesign

As a public servant, I'm trying out writing weekly notes to let people see what I do. #weeknotes #govdesign
This week: antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/28...

🔭 Next up: sharpen the plan for 26/27. Look at what more we can get and do with performance data. Keep building the case for doing things differently.

#govdesign 6/6

🛏️ Discussed how to embed user-centred design into the Service Transformation programme’s strategy, structure and operations, with its Lead Product Manager and Lead Content Designer.

#govdesign 5/6

🔎 Reviewed research and performance data insights from Q3 to identify potential future priorities, with feedback from team on how to improve next time.

#govdesign 4/6

🤓 Putting together a subject matter expert 'sense-check group' for potential Service Manual changes.

🎯 Drafted OKRs for the next couple of quarters, which we’ll discuss at Service Transformation programme’s away day in Manchester on Monday.

#govdesign 3/6

🩰 Planning for turning our long‑term vision into practical steps we can actually start delivering now and over the next year or so.

#govdesign 2/6

As a public servant I write regular notes to show what my team and I are doing with GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual. In the last week or two we have...

🛠️ Completed many fixes, updates, corrections, stylistic improvements across the Service Manual.

#govdesign 1/6

I’ve been leading Design Sprint work in Manchester with DBT and GDS over the past few days. It’s been great seeing this type of x-gov collaboration happening again. In person ideation moving into prototyping and user research over the next few weeks …hope to share more of this work soon #govdesign

As a public servant, I'm trialling writing weekly notes to let people see what I do. This week: Realistic antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/22...
#govdesign #weeknote

Partial screenshot of a website displaying 4 open design positions: • Content design role in Berlin • User research ops working student in Berlin • Service designer and project lead in digital government in Potsdam • Accessibility specialist in Northern Germany

Another #govDesign job klaxon 🔔

At @digitalservice.bund.de, we are looking for a mid-level #contentDesign er and a working-student #userResearch er to join us.

It’s been a while since we opened these roles, so I am really excited about listing these:

verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

Partial screenshot of a website displaying 2 open design positions: • Service designer and project lead in digital government in Potsdam • Accessibility specialist in Northern Germany

#Accessibility #GovDesign job klaxon 🔔

State-owned digital outcome provider Dataport is looking for #A11y testers with a background in human-computer interaction or #UX design. Candidates can apply for various cities across northern and eastern Germany.

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verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

A red book with plain typography reading “Eight Decades of British Design: Design Council 1944 to Today” — with the second part blind embossed, while the first is black on red

Your work is in here, @markhurrell.bsky.social, and you get mentioned in the text, @loudowne.bsky.social, together with @benterrett.bsky.social.

Lovely #GovDesign documentation.

For those interested in the posters, you can find them on the blog: designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2019/09/18/n...

The big extra benefit of this role:

You get to work with @simonecarrier.bsky.social and the great #GovDesign people she has assembled around her.

Partial screenshot of a website displaying 2 open design positions: • Service designer and project lead in digital government in Potsdam • UX specialist at the tax and revenue office Kassel

#DesignJob klaxon 📯

There is a brand-new #ServiceDesign job opening at @digital-agentur.de in Potsdam. It includes #UserResearch & #GovDesign stakeholder work. The position is a parental leave cover until April 2027

There’s also a UX specialist role in Kassel

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verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

A mockup of a poster for our proposed competition. The 4 hosts and judges of the original 'bakeoff' TV show are behind a table covered in a blue and white checked table cloth. On the tables are various incredible cakes and fancy looking buns. The faces of the hosts have been covered by the logos for GOV.UK, DWP, Scottish Government, Home Office and Ministry of Justice. We've clumsily edited the original bakeoff logo to read 'Great Design System Bakeoff' by pasting over the word 'British'.

As a public servant, I'm trialling writing weekly notes to let people see what I do (while learning how to build a website): antonypoveda.design/weeknotes/14... #govdesign #weeknote

🤖 Added requirements to the Service Standard for service teams to

- have someone on/available to the team who fully understands how AI works & the impact of using it
- assess impact of AI on user experience, inclusion & the reliability of info & decisions

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4/4 #govdesign

📋 Surveyed GDS content designers on joining up services with GOV.UK and analysed responses

3/4 #govdesign

🧰 Welcomed 3x contractor Content Designers who have cracked through stylistic improvements, fixes, corrections across 40+ pages, and are now picking up heftier stuff

🚿 Developed content workflow

2/4 #govdesign

As a public servant I write #weeknotes / #monthnotes to show what my team and I are doing with #GDS ’s Service Standard & Service Manual. Recently we've...

🔭 Set the vision for 'Service Manual 2030'

1/4 #govdesign

In today's episode of #FixTheForms, I'm delighted to welcome new guidance from the German government on good #FormDesign #GovDesign

Thanks @paulpistorius.bsky.social for all your hard work on this

... a couple of extra points coming up
(1/n, n=5)

Triangle of success – involving the right parties in the form design process YouTube video by UK Gov Design

The guidance was written by my colleague @paulpistorius.bsky.social, building on his experience working on various justice services and related forms over the past 3 years.

Paul talked about his work on forms and how to invite the right parties at last year‘s Amsterdam #GovDesign conference.

3/X

Partial screenshot of a website displaying 4 open design positions: • UX specialist at the tax and revenue office Kassel • graphic and motion designer at the German Parliament in Berlin • UX/UI expert at the Bavarian Criminal Police Office in Munich • Senior UX/UI designer at the State Pension provide DRV in Stuttgart • Expert in IT solution design at the Institute for Federal Real Estate in Berlin

#DesignJob klaxon 🔔

A new #UX specialist position has opened at the tax and revenue office in Kassel. The role is open until 15 February 2026.

4 more roles are currently listed on my German #GovDesign job board – at @bundestag.de, DRV BW, Bay. LKA:

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verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

International Design in Government The International Design in Government community brings together design-minded people from governments worldwide – to learn from each other, share best practice, and discuss shared challenges.

I am usually on the critical yet optimistic side when it comes to the public sector, looking for good examples to share. That is also what @karakane-kk.bsky.social and I do with the int’l #GovDesign community.

Regarding the signage: I’d like to see how other people use it and navigate.

Change through delivery: A strategy for transformation in the complex German system YouTube video by UK Gov Design

So lovely to hear, Priyanca. I’m sure Sonja loves to talk to you again! She has been grateful for the exchange.

For others reading this, here is the mentioned talk from @digitalservice.bund.de’s CPO at the 2025 Amsterdam #GovDesign conference:

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14. Operate a reliable service Minimise service downtime and have a plan to deal with it when it does happen.

Point 14 - now requires quality assurance testing to not be left to automated tools. Service teams must also now monitor outcomes for users and ethical issues such as bias. www.gov.uk/service-manu...

#govdesign 5/5

11. Choose the right tools and technology Choose tools and technology that let you create a high quality service in a cost effective way. Minimise the cost of changing direction in future.

Point 11 - requires to assess the impact of technologies on user experience, inclusion, and the reliability of information and decisions. www.gov.uk/service-manu...

#govdesign 4/5

Point 6 - now requires service teams using AI in a service to have someone on or available to the team who fully understands how it works and the impact of using it. www.gov.uk/service-manu...

#govdesign 3/5

2. Solve a whole problem for users Work towards creating a service that solves a whole problem for users, working with other teams and organisations where necessary. Design and develop your service around the needs of users, not arou...

Point 2 - clearer that designing services around users not technologies includes not designing them around AI technologies. Clearer that existing solutions includes existing AI solutions. www.gov.uk/service-manu...

#govdesign 2/5