Lists are the best, and I just published one about what I think makes a good design team today. It’s not complete, and only a snapshot in time, but I need it to take sensible decisions things at work, and you might find it interesting 📋

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Just published some posters that we did for the recent GDS launch, showing the bulk of our product offering govdesign.tumblr.com/post/7783635...

I’m hiring for a Lead Designer in the GOV.UK AI team. It’s my old job, and it’s great fun. Come lead a small group of designers working on GOV.UK Chat and other applications of AI that transform how people in the UK interact with the state 🏄‍♂️

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Blog post from @timpaul.co.uk and Helena Trippe at GDS, exploring what the ideas in the 'Blueprint for modern digital government' might look and behave like "when they inevitably bump up against the rough edges of the real world"...

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Quick one about how I use different time lenses to set up teams that can succeed at a time of increased ambition and rate of tech progress www.kubabartwicki.com/posts/design...

I haven’t read the act or the guidance, but even if it has been incorrectly interpreted by LFGSS then it’s a poor piece of legislation / because it shouldn’t put things like LFGSS at risk. one of the best corners of the internet there is.

To conclude a year in which we just cannot stop iterating and shipping, we just put autocomplete on every single GOV.UK page and redesigned the searching experience insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/12/m...

Nice from @kubabartwicki.bsky.social on the need to re-calibrate the existing brand trust that a user brings to their use of an unreliable chatbot.

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This is nice open working from @kubabartwicki.bsky.social and team at GDS on GOVUK chat. Thoughtful reflections on how technology can be used well, and challenges that need solved around accuracy and educaton

insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/28/h...

Just published something about how we’re designing GOV.UK Chat, a product that’s currently in a private beta across some GOV.UK pages

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“Maybe public digital work is part of a wider project to humanise the digital dimension”

Love this from @jamestplunkett.bsky.social

There’s been a lot of talks about tensions and dichotomies and juxtapositions as a way of guiding conversations about the future of digital government. I wrote about one of them, which is the balance between user-facing delivery and work on enabling platforms: www.kubabartwicki.com/posts/user-f...

Who do you know that’s doing interesting work in the space of AI adoption, safety and inclusion, and is based in the UK?

I wrote a short list of reasons of why I think working in the open is good for you and your teams. I think we could really do with a renewed, optimistic case for it in the public sector!

www.kubabartwicki.com/posts/workin...

In which the very clueful @kubabartwicki.bsky.social makes the case for designer being part of any team experimenting with implementing AI. Should go without saying, really. I guess those surfing every new tech wave has to relearn this lesson. www.kubabartwicki.com/posts/we-nee...

Multi-channel services and AI products have a lot in common, they both:

- Are dynamic, with multiple possible journeys and user outcomes
- Involve making something invisible, like datasets or service journeys, visible
- Include touchpoints outside of control of a single team

Published a quick, moderately spicy ramble about why I think ‘solutionising’ gets an unnecessarily bad rep 🌶️

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