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Bath & North East Somerset Carers Centre

Creating a carer friendly community supporting carers to stay well, stay connected and stay in control.

  • Designing a new website
  • The Carers' Centre
  • Top 3 take-aways from a digital year…

    Top 3 take-aways from a digital year…

    It’s hard to believe that I’ve been working on digital projects for a year and, as my maternity leave fast approaches, I feel now is a…
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    Laura Perry
    May 30
    Working Together: The Launch

    Working Together: The Launch

    How The Carers’ Centre and Digital Wonderlab launched the site they worked on together.
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    May 16
    Working Together: Design

    Working Together: Design

    User journey, sorted! Wireframes, tick! Next, was the really fun bit, the design!
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Apr 11
    Gathering Insights…On Your Colleagues Part 2.

    Gathering Insights…On Your Colleagues Part 2.

    How my user-centred journey is going…
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    Laura Perry
    Mar 11
    Working Together: Content

    Working Together: Content

    How The Carers’ Centre began thinking about the content required to populate a new website.
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Feb 28
    Working Together: User Testing

    Working Together: User Testing

    How we tested our wireframes to ensure our website would achieve what we wanted it to.
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Feb 7
    Supporter Journeys: They’re everywhere!

    Supporter Journeys: They’re everywhere!

    Our history with supporters.
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    Laura Perry
    Feb 4
    Working Together: Wireframes

    Working Together: Wireframes

    How we worked with Digital Wonderlab to develop outline of how our new website could function (not look!)
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Jan 12
    Working Together: User Journeys

    Working Together: User Journeys

    Learning from The Carers’ Centre and Digital Wonderlab on understanding how users move through your site
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Dec 13, 2021
    Working Together: User Profiles

    Working Together: User Profiles

    What is a user profile and why are they important?
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Dec 1, 2021
    Gathering Insights: What we learned from the wider community

    Gathering Insights: What we learned from the wider community

    The final blog in our ‘insights’ series looks at what we learned from the general public about their views on support for unpaid carers…
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Nov 2, 2021
    Gathering Insights: What we learned from health and social care colleagues

    Gathering Insights: What we learned from health and social care colleagues

    What we learned from health and social care colleagues about how we can work together to improve the lives of carers.
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Nov 1, 2021
    Team Taskforce- our learnings & findings.

    Team Taskforce- our learnings & findings.

    Over the past 5 months, we have been working in small groups called ‘taskforces’. The aim of these taskforces was to conduct some research…
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    Laura Perry
    Oct 22, 2021
    What we’ve learned about gathering insights (it’s not as easy as we thought!)

    What we’ve learned about gathering insights (it’s not as easy as we thought!)

    Our journey of learning in user research over the last 6–9 months. What we can build on and what we’ll try not to do again!
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Oct 13, 2021
    Working Together: Choosing the right digital partner

    Working Together: Choosing the right digital partner

    How we chose a partner and set our partnership off on the right course.
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Oct 4, 2021
    User Testing

    User Testing

    User testing was something completely unknown to me a couple of weeks ago and I have now observed several sessions of user testing in…
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    Laura Perry
    Sep 21, 2021
    My First Digital Sprint- Part One!

    My First Digital Sprint- Part One!

    Ready, set, go…
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    Laura Perry
    Aug 10, 2021
    Team Taskforce- Keeping Momentum!

    Team Taskforce- Keeping Momentum!

    Momentum. A quick peak in the dictionary and it is defined as the force that keeps an object moving.
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    Laura Perry
    Aug 5, 2021
    Gathering Insights: What we’ve learned from 3rd sector partners

    Gathering Insights: What we’ve learned from 3rd sector partners

    How we gathered data from our partners, and what we learned….
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Jun 11, 2021
    Gathering insights…on your colleagues.

    Gathering insights…on your colleagues.

    Over the past few months, I have been introduced to the world of User Experience (UX) and, until now, I’ve only been tasked with gathering…
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    Laura Perry
    May 28, 2021
    Tackling key challenges with a user-centric approach

    Tackling key challenges with a user-centric approach

    Or how we solved a problem in our ‘telephone cafe’s for carers
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    May 20, 2021
    What we learnt when things went wrong

    What we learnt when things went wrong

    After a meeting ended in disaster, here are the lessons we learned to help us grow and develop as we continue our user centred journey….
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Apr 22, 2021
    Gathering Insights: what we’ve learned from carers

    Gathering Insights: what we’ve learned from carers

    We’ve been talking to carers about how the community do, or don’t, support them. Here’s what we’ve done, and what we’ve learned…..
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Feb 17, 2021
    Finding our User Experience Journey : Team way of working

    Finding our User Experience Journey : Team way of working

    After 3 months of user experience mentoring, what have Carers’ Centre staff learned about user-centred design and what this means for us…
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Feb 10, 2021
    Finding our User Experience Journey : Prototyping

    Finding our User Experience Journey : Prototyping

    Having gained user insights, and developed a product, how did we work to make our idea a reality? What we learned about prototyping…..
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    Janine Woodward-Grant
    Feb 10, 2021
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