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With only 8 weeks to go until UKCharityCamp, now's the time to secure your tickets! And if you're not sure quite what to expect, Harry's shared some thoughts in his latest blog post 👇

We're hiring for a number of roles here at dxw, including: - Developer - Senior Developer - Lead Technologist - Product Manager/Senior Product Manager Find all the info on the roles and how to apply here 👉 www.dxw.com/careers/#ope...

We're hiring for a Lead Technologist to provide technical leadership across our teams delivering digital services for the public good. This senior technical role combines hands-on delivery, technical leadership and people support. Find the details and apply here 👉 tr.ee/K4x2vzA2RZ

News roundup 👇 ✅ Government annual survey on science and tech. ✅ Public tenders can support digital inclusion projects. ✅ Lack of laptop access harms children’s futures. ✅ Digital Nation infographic. ✅ Cornwall Council’s strategy. Read more 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org/digital-incl... @dxw.com

I'm late to this from the @dxw.com blog but it's excellent and refreshingly uncertain about how junior developers and AI will work together in an agency environment: www.dxw.com/2026/06/what...

Time to secure your spot at this year's UKCharityCamp! Taking place on 5th November in Birmingham.

Our July newsletter is out now 📨 We're talking about what employee ownership means for dxw and the role of junior developers in the age of AI (amongst lots of other good stuff). Take a look and subscribe here tr.ee/dxw-newslett...

At the @thekingsfund.bsky.social conference, Marianne noticed "a clear shift from AI as a technical innovation problem to AI as a systems, governance, and service design challenge" in healthcare. "This creates both risk of moving too slowly, and opportunity for real service transformation."

Our June newsletter is now in your inboxes 📬 This month, we're talking about: - an AI use case with a real impact at DfE - the role of leadership in service transformation - the language around 'AI guardrails' - and why accessibility audits matter more than ever 🔗 tr.ee/dxw-newslett...

Today is Employee Ownership Day 🎉 We've been employee owned for almost 5 years now. It helps us protect our independence, stay focused on our mission, and make decisions for the long term. If you’re interested in how employee ownership works in practice for us, take a look 👉 tr.ee/dxw-playbook

Time to celebrate... it's our birthday! 🥳 Today marks 18 years of dxw. Thanks to our team and friends that make us who we are. Here's to the next 18!

The final part of our 'space around the thing' series is out! And it's all about the role of leadership in creating the right conditions for service transformation to really happen 👉 tr.ee/Br5FvtZAj2

In our latest case study, see how the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) worked with us to better understand their online users and help with a tender process for a new website 👉 tr.ee/u9JcBmji2G

It's #WPLDN tomorrow, come join us, we have air con, great speakers, free pizza, and some drinks thrown in! Doors open at 6:00pm We'll hear from three speakers across two sessions. Including @cameronjonesweb.bsky.social, Robert Abela & @tna.sh Register free here: www.meetup.com/london-wordp...

Harry and co recently worked alongside a team at @departmentforedu.bsky.social on an AI experiment, looking at the role generative AI might play in supporting internal delivery officers. Read about how the team approached the project and what they found here 👉 tr.ee/Agf9xp

Recently we’ve seen an increase in requests for accessibility audits, and the remediation work that follows them. There’s now an acknowledgement that accessibility standards can form a baseline for a better, more inclusive web for everyone. Barry explains more in his blog 👉 tr.ee/ZYSyMI

We're really excited to share that Ming will be leading a session at @sdingov.bsky.social this September! 👏 On 24th September at 11:15 he'll be discussing how to make better prototyping decisions in the age of AI, with hands-on tips and real-world examples sdingov.net/programme/ar...

The news is out... After a fantastic event last year, we’re really pleased to share that UKCharityCamp is back for 2026 🎉 It’ll be on Thursday 5th November, at The Studio in Birmingham. Sign up for ticket reminders here tr.ee/aKDs7d And to the UKCharityCamp email list here lnkd.in/eaUP3Udm

Selina's new blog post looks at how emotional insights and clear, compassionate content design are shaping a digital NHS lung cancer screening service to reduce anxiety and improve uptake tr.ee/oRwvmI

Lee's new blog post looks at how we handled a recent supply-chain attack on WordPress users that had one or more of the 26 plugins previously owned by essentialplugins. The attack effected some sites hosted by dxw but, thanks to our security practices, none were damaged by it 👉 tr.ee/PmtSGK

⭐ New digital inclusion news roundup ⭐ In this special edition, we take a look at the first year of the government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org/digital-incl... @dxw.com #digitaldivide #localgov #technews

Harriet's new blog post shares some insights on their first project working with the NHS, and the lessons they'll be carrying from it into their new role as a Tech Lead. Read the full post here tr.ee/PI9tsl

Last week in London, Leeds and Bristol, we held our first company-wide AI vibe codeathon 🤖 We played around with early stage fixes in Health, Probation, and web hosting; an app for finding a pub garden with some sunshine currently on it; and a fake incident scenarios simulator for SREs.

We're looking for a Business Analyst to join the dxw team! You’ll work in multidisciplinary teams to help organisations understand how their services operate, identify opportunities for improvement, and ensure digital products and services deliver measurable value. Apply by 6th April tr.ee/WHKBDS

Stuart and Ynda's new blog post talks about our work with GDS improving the GOV.UK Publishing service, and how we're making it more efficient, less prone to data issues and enabling it to support more channels tr.ee/VbEuW2

We're looking for a Developer to join us here at dxw! In this hands-on software development role, you’ll build web applications and services in multidisciplinary project teams with a range of clients in various stages of digital transformation. Applications close on 3rd April tr.ee/bY5XcH

Melissa's shared some more insights from a recent two-week design sprint in Image Reading at @england.nhs.uk. The dxw team at NHSE immersed themselves in one very specific and complex topic: how image reader performance is monitored and reported in breast screening tr.ee/Sggv1B

Isobel, Marianne and Selina joined an NHS England digital screening UCD day on Tuesday, connecting with other researchers and designers to share experiences and develop their community practices. Plus, Selina was interviewed about her work on lung cancer screening 👏 tr.ee/NEDYQ3j_gJ

Our biggest ever news roundup, with exciting case studies about digital inclusion projects that are making waves 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org/digital-incl... @dxw.com #localgov #digitalinclusion

"Just keep it quick and low-fidelity." You've likely heard this as a designer, usually as a gesture intended to ease pressure on the design team. But, Ming says, “low-fi is not a synonym for quick, and choosing the wrong level of polish can slow us down.” Check out his new post here tr.ee/91vKhh

"My role is about grounding the vision in commercial reality, and sometimes challenging existing ways of thinking, to ensure we’re as sustainable as we are ambitious." Our latest Humans of dxw post catches up with Finance & Resources Director Adelle 👉 www.dxw.com/2026/02/huma...

We're hiring! 📢 We're looking for a Lead Technologist/AI and Data Specialist to join our team, developing our approach to AI and helping our clients make best use of it. Find out more and apply here www.dxw.com/jobs/lead-te...

At almost the same moment we took on the support contract for @greatormondst.bsky.social last year, their lead developer moved on. That’s where Nicky came in. She’s written about her experience providing interim technical leadership with a major Wagtail upgrade on the horizon 👉 tr.ee/ZdirCl

We're really proud to have renewed our support and continue to be the sole sponsor of @diginclusionkit.bsky.social, who're doing great work providing resources for local government to run digital inclusion programmes 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org

Marianne and Melissa joined the NHS England teams for some much valued in-person workshopping and design sprint days this week. There're some more write-ups to come from the team soon, but you can have a read through their recent blog posts and insights here 👉 tr.ee/NEDYQ3j_gJ

Steph's shared her insights from a collaborative workshop we hosted late last year with the good folk at Basis and public sector leaders. Our goal for the session was to share learning and critically examine where AI has helped peers and service users 👉 tr.ee/rbFAY6

From Melissa's experience working with different types of data across central and local government, the biggest challenge seems to be confidence in understanding, evaluating, and applying data to decision making. Her blog post looks at the approaches we can take to normalising it tr.ee/lyiKi9

AI experiments often fail because they aren’t focussed on where there’s the greatest opportunity for value, like back-end transformation. Remembering that the goal is to learn, not create a finished product, Alex’s latest blog post sets out 4 steps to a well-defined AI experiment tr.ee/PmrP9I7-pk

In our latest newsletter, we've been taking a look into the work our teams are doing with the @departmentforedu.bsky.social, including Ming's 2-part blog post series on prototyping public services with AI. Check it out and subscribe here 👉 tr.ee/dxw-december...

At the British Business Bank, we’ve been exploring architectural options for a new application helping small UK businesses access asset finance. George and team spent a couple of hack days working through the fundamentals of Event Sourcing architecture. Here's what they learned 👉 tr.ee/AVszEIVEWJ

Service Design Principal Marianne's been out and about this week visiting @england.nhs.uk's mobile breast screening units, chatting to the staff and getting to understand more about how they work. Here she is with NHS colleagues Veronika in Helmsley, and Elliot in Gateshead tr.ee/NuMq6q

William has just completed his year-long Developer apprenticeship with our GovPress team (congratulations William!) He’s written a bit about his experience here 👉 tr.ee/8ylhM8

We're pleased to sponsor @transformgovtalks.bsky.social – an ongoing series of monthly meet-ups for anyone who wants to learn about and discuss improving government. Their next event is next Wednesday, 28th January, and you can join online or in-person luma.com/pc7ji8sg

Many public services are delivered in spite of existing technology infrastructures, not because of them, holding back the potential for great services. Here're Marianne's thoughts on why a move from legacy tech provides an opportunity to rethink how products and services are delivered tr.ee/Ulf7VU

There's a few @dxw.com folks here at #UKGovCamp today so do come and have a chat if you're in Brum 🐂 today #ukgc26

If you’ve been to… well, any events recently, there’s a high chance you’ll have seen us dxw folk around. There’ve been some great opportunities to catch up with and learn from colleagues and friends face-to-face. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been up to tr.ee/dxw-december...

Our last blog post of the year comes from Nina. She takes a look at how we can improve the transition from policy to delivery with 'service patterns' – the reusable building blocks that help teams to design services end-to-end and front-to-back, coherently and consistently 👉 tr.ee/q8iLd5VcII

Prototyping is an essential part of interaction design, and various methods exist. With the advent of AI, there’s considerable potential to enhance coding productivity. Here’s what some of our team have learned from pairing the GOV.UK Prototype Kit with Cursor AI 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/12/prot...

A few interesting articles in our latest digital inclusion news roundup 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org/digital-incl... @dxw.com #technews #tech4good #localgov #digitalinclusion

Content design and content strategy: best friends forever 🤝 This blog post from Louise talks about the benefits of content strategy over just design – the difference between doing the work for someone and giving them the tools, resources and skills to continue the work themselves tr.ee/1MAOHrbKqQ