Last month was UKGovcampX, an event close to dxw’s heart. I’ve been a regular attendee and sometime campmaker since 2013, but this was my first one since leaving the Civil Service so I was looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends. This isn’t a comprehensive account of the day – just some thoughts. I took […]

Hello! At the beginning of the January I moved roles to help out as a Delivery Manager at dxw. Why make the change? I’ve been on the development team at dxw for over a year now. While I have been having enormous fun building software for our clients and their users, I wanted to try […]

UKGovcamp has just celebrated it’s 10th birthday when over 200 people gathered at the National Audit Office. For those not familiar, it’s an unconference where a fabulous network of people with digital in common and a passion for making government work better, come together to identify and discuss the issues we need to battle. dxw […]

After having had the opportunity to go the the Women of Silicon Roundabout conference in October, I found out from one of the speakers that there was a European Women in Tech event taking place in Amsterdam at the end of November. I hadn’t at this point managed to work out which conference to go […]

Don’t underestimate the value of good notes User researchers are a bit like wedding photographers. We have to capture what’s happening, what the participant does and what they say, but this is a small part of a researcher’s work. The real value actually comes from the analysis we do afterwards. Much like a photographer spends […]

Whilst looking over dxw’s blog posts recently, I realised it has been some time since we’ve given an update on GovSite. When dxw last wrote about Govsite we described it as a flexible theme we had developed and made available for anyone to use. GovSite has since come a long way and is now available […]