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Designing
GovernmentCat Drew
DIFI, Norwegian Government 2016
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Hello!
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My worlds
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My worlds
policymaker
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My worlds
policymaker designer
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What is design?
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form
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form process
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Diagnose
Establish scope
& reframe
questions
Develop, test and
refine shared ideas and
proposals
Develop & DeliverDiscover
Generate insight
through big data
and user insight
The design process
Be open and collaborative
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Diagnose
Establish scope
& reframe
questions
Develop, test and
refine shared ideas and
proposals
Develop & DeliverDiscover
Generate insight
through big data
and user insight
The design process
Be open and collaborative
user insight
big data
prototyping
reframing
discovery
open policymaking
co-designsprint
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Diagnose
Jumping straight
to problems (and
often solutions)
Jumping straight to
piloting or scaling
without testing first
Develop & DeliverDiscover
Using more traditional
methods like surveys
& focus groups
Different from before?
Engaging key stakeholders at the ideas stage
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Why do we need
design in
Government?
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Design:Saves money
Generates transformative ideas
Creates better services
Tackles wicked problems
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Saves money
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in
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Saves money
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in out
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Saves money
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Saves money
Dyson
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Transformational ideas
AbductionOutside inDevelop a
guess linked
to a rule
DeductionTop down
Explore
consequences
of a rule
InductionBottom up
Analyse ‘as is’
facts to create
a rule
Discovery
Justification Dr. Lucy Kimbell
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Transformational ideas
Kenya Hara
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Transformational ideas
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Transformational ideas
How can I build
a bridge?
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Transformational ideas
Why?
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Transformational ideas
How can I get
across the
water?
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Transformational ideas
Bridge
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Transformational ideas
Bridge
Tunnel
Ferry
Zip-line
Canoe
Swim
Balloon
More…
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Transformational ideas
How can we
deliver movies?
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Transformational ideas
How can we
deliver movies?
How can people
watch movies at
home?
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Better services
Livework
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Better services
Dott Cornwall
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Wicked problems
simple
(recipe)
complicated
(man to the
moon)
complex
(child rearing)
chaos/wicked
(health
inequalities)
linear
causalit
ym
ultip
le c
ausalit
y
don’t know know
Uscreates
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Who are Policy
Lab and what do
we do?
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Intro to Lab
We are a creative space where policy
teams can develop the skills and
knowledge to develop policy in a more
open, data-driven, digital and user-
centred way.
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New skills,
knowledge
& Tools
New
Solutions
Inspiring
Projects
Improved
Performance
Innovative
PolicyNew
Thinking
1. Delivering new policy
solutions through inspiring
practical projects
2. Building the skills and
knowledge of the policy
profession and civil service
3. Inspiring new thinking and
innovations in policy through
our experiments and writing.
We have 3 areas of focus
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Lab full projectsSupport for up to a year to enable policy teams to
work in new ways.
Lab sprintsWrap-around support over a short intensive period
of time to accelerate a project.
Lab taster sessionsShort introductions to using Lab tools and
techniques.
Lab experimentsone off trials of new and emergent techniques.
What kind of work do we do?Leading to 4 main areas of work
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Experiments make us a Lab!
We experiment
here. If they work
we bring them into
government and
then try to increase
their use in
departments…
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Our approach
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Diagnose
Establish scope
& reframe
questions
Develop, test and
refine shared ideas and
proposals
Develop & DeliverDiscover
Generate insight
through big data
and user insight
The design process
Be open and collaborative
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The bridge modelresearching prototyping
interpret
describe
abstract
current preferred
concrete
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The bridge modelresearching prototyping
interpret
describe
abstract
current preferred
concrete
What is
Dubberly et al
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The bridge modelresearching prototyping
interpret
describe
abstract
current preferred
concrete
Model of
what is
What is
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The bridge modelresearching prototyping
interpret
describe
abstract
current preferred
concrete
Model of
what could be
Model of
what is
What is
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The bridge modelresearching prototyping
interpret
describe
abstract
current preferred
concrete
Model of
what could be
Model of
what is
What could
beWhat is
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Some examples
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Lab full projectsSupport for up to a year to enable policy teams to
work in new ways.
Lab sprintsWrap-around support over a short intensive period
of time to accelerate a project.
Lab taster sessionsShort introductions to using Lab tools and
techniques.
Lab experimentsone off trials of new and emergent techniques.
What kind of work do we do?4 main areas of work
@catdrew19 @PolicyLabUK DIFI, Norwegian Government 2016
Lab full projectsSupport for up to a year to enable policy teams to
work in new ways.
Lab sprintsWrap-around support over a short intensive period
of time to accelerate a project.
Lab taster sessionsShort introductions to using Lab tools and
techniques.
Lab experimentsone off trials of new and emergent techniques.
What kind of work do we do?4 main areas of work
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Demonstration project
Police digitisation
“How can we improve police
support for victims of crime in
a digital age?”
Policy Lab, Uscreates & RCA
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Demonstration project
Police digitisation
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Demonstration project
Police digitisation
Demonstration project
Police digitisation
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Demonstration project
Police digitisation
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Demonstration
Projects
Demonstration project
Police digitisation
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Demonstration project
Police digitisation
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Demonstration project
Police digitisation
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Demonstration project
Health & work
“How can we support people
to manage their health
conditions and stay in work?”
Policy Lab & Uscreates
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Health & work
Data scienceDemonstration project
Health & Work
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Health & work
Data scienceDemonstration project
Health & Work
Two segments of people
saying they were on
health benefits also said
that their health was fairly
good showing health is
not the only thing we need
to deal with
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Health & work
Data scienceDemonstration project
Health & Work
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Demonstration project
Health & work
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Health & work
prototypingDemonstration project
Health & Work
Penzance
East
London
Newcastle
Southend
Bournemouth
Demonstration project
Health & work
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Demonstration project
Health & work
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Demonstration project
Health & work
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Lab full projectsSupport for up to a year to enable policy teams to
work in new ways.
Lab sprintsWrap-around support over a short intensive period
of time to accelerate a project.
Lab taster sessionsShort introductions to using Lab tools and
techniques.
Lab experimentsone off trials of new and emergent techniques.
What kind of work do we do?Leading to 4 main areas of work
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Health & work
prototypingLab experiments
Policy Jams
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“It is always about trying to
pin the future down. This is
something we are absolutely
not interested in… In our
view, it is a pointless activity.
What we are interested in,
though, is the idea of possible
futures and using them as
tools to better understand the
present and to discuss the
kind of future people want,
and of course, ones people
don’t want.”
Dunne & Raby (2013)
Speculative Everything
Health & work
prototypingLab experiments
Speculative design
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Health & work
prototypingLab experiments
Speculative design
Dunne & Raby
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Health & work
prototypingLab experiments
Speculative design
Superflux
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Health & work
prototypingLab experiments
Speculative design
Policy Lab & Strange Telemetry
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@cgchristrottConsul General, Cape Town, SA
Health & work
prototypingOther experiments
Data science
Government Digital Service
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Health & work
prototypingOther experiments
Data science
Start with clear user need and
public benefit
Use data and tools which have
the minimal intrusion necessary
Create robust data science models
Be alert to public perceptions
Keep data secure
123456
Be as open as possible
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Health & work
prototypingOther experiments
Data science
GDS, Ipsos-MORI & Codelegs
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Find out more
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Find out more
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Find out more
https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/open-policy-making-toolkit
http://www.slideshare.net/Openpolicymaking/policy-
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