Cabinet Office: Forget about Verify – look at our 3,000 designers (and 56 meetups) You may not have many functional digital government services to use here in the UK – but if you did, they would be the prettiest in the world. The Cabinet Office has defended the UK's recent record in digital government by pointing to thousands of new jobs for "user researchers and content designers" it has created. The …
Aren't you supposed too be able to fit the entire population of the Earth onto the Isle of Wight?
Yes. So long as you EITHER have good vertical stacking abilities OR decide upon Global Thermonuclear War as your game of choice ("Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?"). Post GTW you could probably fit most of the population of planet Earth on the Isle of Wight, with room to spare.
Aren't you supposed too be able to fit the entire population of the Earth onto the Isle of Wight?
Yes. However, that assumes that every one of them is going to be standing upright, with zero movement and zero space to move.
It assumes that those ~7 billion people would need to eat or drink etc. So yes, theoretically it's possible. Practically, not so much.
Yes. However, that assumes that every one of them is going to be standing upright, with zero movement and zero space to move.
Keep 'em frozen like fish fingers (it's not like most of B-Ark people are likely to be any less productive than at normal operating temperature)
Oh, and Couple of corridors to jog round occasionally for some strange reason.
When do they get time to do any real work?
It is any surprise that every Government IT project is horribly late, over budget and bears little resemblance to what was agreed in the first place.
It is almost if the whole thing was coded by committee.
OR
Is the new Software Designer supposed to be like the one in the Picture? Or is a Beard, a bow-tie and full sleeve tat's de-rigeur for developers working in the black hole of Shoreditch these days? What good ever came out of there?
Cynical? Yeah and it is Monday and I have had my Coffee (not from any chain outlet of coloured warm water I might add)
Leaving the EU is prompting a large number of changes to government business, and this scale of change creates significant opportunity to transform government's digital services even further,
'Opportunity' for whom, to do what.
I have to suspect a whole new gravy train, closer to home and with an even tighter circle.
A lot of prancing digital fluffers to hide Gov has little substance and even less direction.
Our recruitment policy, used to consist of about three questions. Along the lines of: What's the answer? Daemon; extrapolate? It's your round? Wearing a dress was an automatic hire, as we could teach the rest and its good for team balance plus turning up showed remarkable intuition and radar. #youcancodeinmeetings
Isn't it a pity that between them they can't come up with a decent UI. One that doesn't waste acres (or hectares for the youngsters) of screen for "pretty" white space. One that doesn't have huge text, which combined with the aforementioned white space means that SFA fits on the screen. One that doesn't do in eight screens/forms what a sensible site could do in one or two.
Yup, you can spot the sites that GDS has "improved" !
Are these like the Design Engineers that come up with, say, Solar Freakin' Roadways? Or the plane with a parachute for the whole passenger compartment? Those nice looking but utterly impossible submarines in movies?
As a rule of thumb that's served me well, if you have X designers you need at least 2x Engineers. More than that if you're doing anything that crosses domains (e.g. Mechanical to Electrical to Electronic to software to network design). Then you need 2x + [number of domains] Engineers. Again, minimum.
How many Engineering jobs were created? All this design surely doesn't hinge upon the designers doing, say, database work or cable runs?
Louise Downe says – and she should know – that good services are verbs.
https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2018/05/23/how-i-used-wget-to-make-a-copy-of-the-service-manual-for-user-research/
and they handily dropped in a user and password.....genius
not forgetting they copied UK gov documents (probably copyrighted) onto a third party US service
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