There's just 1 week to go until we’ll be gathering in Birmingham for UKCharityCamp 2025, and we can't wait to see you there. If you know a colleague that doesn’t yet have their ticket, the very last few are available here tr.ee/QCAnUecTXn

In case you missed it, you can now watch Alex Yedigaroff’s recent talk for Digital Leaders AI Week on demand. Alex’s session looked at how to run AI experiments: from identifying a problem, to forming a hypothesis, designing and building the experiment, and capturing what’s learned tr.ee/7rJy83

Our team working with NHS England attended the recent breast screening team day in London. Jane, Marianne, Melissa, Farrah joined a bunch of dxw friends and colleagues from all teams across the breast screening pathway. Spot Marianne speaking at the front in the last pic! 👀

In our latest newsletter, we’re (mostly) looking at AI. There's Lola’s work with Educate Ventures Research into frameworks for AI adoption in Higher Education, a case study on thoughtful AI use in fundraising, some links to great events, and other things we've been liking recently 👉 tr.ee/A7V9gP

Thank you @dxw.com for sponsoring UKGovCamp2026. Your support means a lot to us! For registration and sponsorship enquiries, please visit: www.ukgovcamp.com

The second post in our series on AI in education with Educate Ventures Research is up now on the blog. This time, we look at ways schools could drive confident adoption of AI tools by involving their teachers and staff in defining approaches that are appropriate for them. Read here 👉 tr.ee/NoSqEg

If you’re building a digital inclusion programme — the Digital Inclusion Toolkit is a free resource to help you get started. With guides, case studies and insights to support your org’s work ✅ Take a look around 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org #GetOnlineWeek #localgov @dxw.com

Last chance to sign up to Alex Yedigaroff’s talk on 'Testing the Waters: How to Run AI Experiments with Confidence’. Taking place online next Monday as part of Digital Leaders' AI Week 2025 👉 lnkd.in/eVz3mUgY

By having better alternatives to dashboards, can we nudge stakeholders towards other, more appropriate formats? Melissa’s latest blog post explores why dashboards are often the default for reporting, and poses some questions to consider before jumping in to creating your next one tr.ee/hAOA6Z

How can Higher Education institutions get genuine benefits from AI? This first blog post co-authored by Lola Harre at dxw and Madiha Khan at Educate Ventures Research shares 2 practical frameworks and real-world examples to help the sector turn AI experiments into lasting impact 👉 tr.ee/M4luJf

There's still time to grab a last minute ticket for this great #HealthTech panel discussion at midday today. Hear about the behind-the-scenes work that's essential to delivering better digital health services👇 #LeedsDigitalFestival #LeedsDigi25

There’s just one week to go until our session on ‘The Space Around the Thing’ at Leeds Digital Festival 2025 leedsdigi.bsky.social! This virtual session hosted by Marianne will focus on the hidden work involved in delivery impactful digital health services. Register here 👉 tr.ee/64iZWzEq0V

“By improving reporting in NHS England, our team is working towards administrative cost savings for the breast screening programme as well as better reuse and interoperability of data” Melissa’s blog post introduces the work the Breast Screening Reporting team is carrying out at NHSE bit.ly/48sr4li

Still not sure if @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social is for you? Harry's here to shed some light on what it's all about. This year's event takes place this year on 13th November in Birmingham. Get your free tickets here 👉 tr.ee/1e3pVbRaOg

Prototyping digital credentials for care leavers @harrytrimble.bsky.social #sdingov

This summer, Mary Henes at the Martingale Foundation and Harry Harrold at @neontribe.bsky.social worked on a project exploring thoughtful AI use in fundraising. Keen to hear more about it? Register below for tomorrow's peer group meeting hosted by @techforgoodcast.bsky.social 👉 tr.ee/ofcT7D

Great to see the new series of TransformGov talks kicking off next week👇

Our latest newsletter is out! 📬 This month we hear from our team working with NHS England about trust, influence, and relationship-building in digital healthcare transformation, and there are some interesting upcoming events that dxw-ers are hosting 👉 tr.ee/dxw-septembe...

Heading to this year's @sdingov.bsky.social conference? Be sure to check out Harry’s session on 18th September. He'll be sharing prototypes and diving deeper into what modern digital government could look like in practice tr.ee/JWRE3W

Our team working with NHS England are back with the second in their series of blog posts about ‘The space around the thing’. Jane zooms in on how trust, influence, and relationship-building are just as critical as good technology in delivering impactful public health services 👉 tr.ee/XI9Xg7

Take a look at Lola’s latest blog post on using AI for the public sector, where she talks about building on what we already know while not losing sight of the real-world outcomes that should underpin all of our work in digital 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/06/ai-f...

In case you missed it, take another look at Head of Delivery, Chris’s latest blog on capability contracts – what they are, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them as a client 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/06/as-a...

📢 The full programme for Leeds Digital Festival 2025 is now live! We’re pleased to be participating with a virtual session hosted by Service Design Principal Marianne, ‘The Space Around the Thing: Delivering impactful digital health services’ tr.ee/64iZWzEq0V

New blog post! 📣 Performance Analyst Melissa talks about the importance of knowing how well (or not) your digital project or service is doing at all stages of the agile lifecycle. And shares approaches that can flex with each stage. Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/08/perf...

We’re excited to have our principal interaction designer Harry Scott-Trimble hosting a session at this year’s @sdingov.bsky.social conference! Harry will share what the new blueprint for modern digital government could mean for the services we all rely on govservicedesign.net/programme/ne...

“I’ve updated my WordPress site, but no-one can see my changes – what went wrong?” Sarah has the answer! Now on the blog, GovPress Service Lead Sarah talks about caching, and why it’s important for making sure dynamic sites stay functional. Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/08/why-...

Our latest newsletter is out! 📬 In it, our CEO Dave talks about the 'digital public realm' and changing shape of public service provision, Marianne discusses the often invisible work involved in improving services, and GovPress developer James shares his career story 👉 mailchi.mp/dxw/june-new...

Up now on the blog, our CEO David Mann shares some thoughts on the different ways digital public services are now provided. And why this means a broadening of the focus for dxw’s work, so we can increase our impact in delivering our mission. Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/07/the-...

We've been working with DfE to improve the number, speed and results of data quality checks, to help improve the process for schools to apply and transfer to academy status. Melissa shares what we achieved in our first 30 days working with the team👇 www.dxw.com/2025/07/firs...

Why products alone won’t transform healthcare We're working with NHS England on digital screening, part of the focus on prevention to improve health outcomes. But how do we ensure success? Marianne talks about the invisible work that goes into delivering impactful digital services 👉 bit.ly/40z6NWo

Highlights of this month's digital inclusion news in our latest roundup 👉 digitalinclusionkit.org/digital-incl... #localgov @dxw.com

We're looking for a Delivery Lead to join our GovPress team You’ll work closely with clients and dxw colleagues to build a single multidisciplinary, agile team. GovPress provides a secure, high quality, fully managed web publishing service. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3IQkpXh

We’re expanding our network of freelance #WebDevelopers. We’re after people with Java/Kotlin or Twilio experience, but we’re always getting new projects with new requirements. If you’re not looking for work right now but might be in the future then we’d still love to hear from you. bit.ly/4eZzD8J

You might have spotted a refreshed GOV.UK brand appear yesterday. We've been implementing this for the platforms we manage for GDS (Blogs and Campaigns). The work's out in the open, so you can have a play for yourself: www.gov.uk/government/p... github.com/alphagov/gov... Well done team 👏

Our latest newsletter is out 📣 This month we celebrate Employee Ownership Day, dive into capability contracts and how to make them work better for clients and their users, share some of our work with Wellcome and more👇 mailchi.mp/dxw/june-new...

Today is Employee Ownership Day 2025: a celebration of what it means to be an employee-owned business. This year’s theme is #eoSmile It’s a less well known ownership model but one more and more businesses are exploring and we're proud to be part of the community. #EODay25

A great update from Selina and Veronika about their work with NHS England looking at opportunities to improve how #BreastScreening results are shared. "Current processes and systems are frustrating, time-consuming and holding them back..." design-history.prevention-services.nhs.uk/explore-team...

You have a problem that needs solving and a tool powered by #AI is looking like the right solution. How do you turn that opportunity into a confident, evidenced decision? Lola looks at some practical things teams can do to explore the use of AI in the public sector 👇 www.dxw.com/2025/06/ai-f...

Jo shares 5 things to think about when starting a transformation project. Reflecting on our work with Wellcome, Jo talks about - understanding the problem - knowing where you're going - how you're going to get there - transformation readiness - a user-centred approach 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/05/5-co...

We're looking forward to being at #LocalGovCamp tomorrow with lots of with digital folks from councils across the UK. dxw-ers Alex, Melissa and Ben will be there running a workshop on where to start when experimenting with AI. Hope to see you there! 👉 digitaltransform.org.uk/2025/04/loca...

In this month's newsletter Dave shares his thoughts on why the Procurement Act alone won't fix government procurement and level the playing field for SMEs. We also welcome Alex as our first Director of Data and Product and introduce the GOV.UK Content Block Manager. 👉 mailchi.mp/dxw/may-news...

There’s lots of talk about the need to make data-informed decisions in government. Melissa shares what she thinks the barriers are and how we can normalise working with data. "Building a culture of confident, data-informed decision making won’t happen overnight." bit.ly/4ktNO7m

@harrytrimble.bsky.social has been working at the Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA). Harry and the team designed new services to make paying taxes less stressful and time consuming including a reminder letter to pay your tax bill, reducing the rates of people getting into debt. bit.ly/4mjkcev

Our CEO @dmits.bsky.social on the reasons why the #ProcurementAct alone won’t fix government procurement or level the playing field for SMEs. To meet these aspirations the culture and behaviours of commercial teams and the influence they have on delivery needs to change. bit.ly/3GZfT7T

Making a positive impact: improving services for schools so they can focus on pupils Our impact report shows how we've worked with DfE to turn off legacy systems and open up opportunities to use advanced tech like AI. Have a read 👉 www.dxw.com/dxw-impact/

We're looking for a Senior User Researcher. At dxw, we work on projects that make a difference to our public services. You'll work in blended multidisciplinary teams, deploying qual and quant methods to conduct effective, ethical research. Interested? Get in touch! www.dxw.com/jobs/senior-...

Just like death and taxes, changes to government facts are inevitable. Editors drop what they’re doing and comb through pages to make updates. What if we could store facts in one place so updates happen once and ripple out? Introducing the GOV.UK Content Block Manager👇 www.dxw.com/2025/04/maki...

Making a positive impact: getting critical information to the public at speed Our impact report shows how our hosting and support services have enabled government teams to create and publish high profile campaign sites like Floods Destroy and Fire Kills. Find out more 👇 www.dxw.com/dxw-impact/

Our new Director of Data and Product 🎉 A few weeks ago we welcomed back @alexyedigaroff.bsky.social in his new role as our first Director of Data and Product. Alex shares more about his new role, why he returned to dxw and what makes him excited about the opportunities ahead 👇 bit.ly/4cnFwv4

This week we welcomed Ben and Florence to the dxw team. They’ve joined our design team and popped into the London office to meet our CEO @dmits.bsky.social