Perspectives From A Fresh Hire at Government Digital Services

Yes, I know, ‘Government’; That word doesn’t seem to get along with terms like ‘cutting edge’ technologies and processes like responsive design, agile, scrum, kanban, or anything else that you might associate with startups…

Rethinking top-level navigation labels

Can you guess what website this is just by looking at these words?

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Designing a Textual Interface

We released the alpha for an internal productivity tool a month ago — a room-booking chatbot for our humble office at the Sandcrawler.

It was challenging to design a usable interface where we had little control of visual elements. In fact, the…