With environmental targets an ever-growing concern, building applications that are as efficient as possible is more important than ever. Data is the key to understanding the environmental impact your applications have. It could influence design and architectural choices during the software development lifecycle. For example, it could help answer questions…

If you’re interested in how we go about user-centered design at Made Tech, and service design and user research in particular, then our design blog, Designed and Made, should definitely be on your radar. …

Housing, as we know, is one of the fundamentals of local government. It’s literally keeping roofs over the heads of millions of families across the country. Collectively, the maintenance overhead for keeping the country’s council housing stock in a good state of repair is massive. And it’s a job that’s…

Last Thursday, I was really excited to unveil the Made Well Collective at the Leeds Digital Festival. This is a new collaborative approach to helping NHS organisations deliver digital and technology projects. Today I want to talk a bit more about the changes we need to support the future of…

In a perfect world, technical teams would have all the skills and knowledge they need to embark on any new project. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. Therefore, you need to find an effective way to balance ongoing learning with effective delivery. Structured learning that revolves around communities of practice…

As the pandemic hit last March, local authorities were on the frontlines of supporting their communities in a time of great uncertainty and fear. Supporting vulnerable people was at the top of the priority list — but identifying those people was another matter. Central government data went some way to…

I’m Mark Wright, a Lead Designer here at Made Tech. I am very passionate about making the web a more accessible place through design. I was diagnosed with dyslexia at a very young age and found it difficult to use computers and read content for a very long time. …

During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen first-hand the remarkable things local governments can accomplish when they’re given the right tools. …

Our global population is exploding, and the latest estimates project it’s set to reach 10 billion by 2050. This growth of almost 2 billion people will put an even greater demand on our existing resources, including energy. Most of us are also eager to improve our quality of life, which…