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Walk-in’ the Talk - piloting assisted digital support at convenient times and places

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Richard Palfery, analyst in the GDS Assisted Digital Team, describes a recent research pilot testing walk-in assisted digital support.

No stone left unturned: Find an apprenticeship assisted digital user research

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Jessica Gough, user research manager for the Find an Apprenticeship exemplar service talks about how they approached the challenges of researching with offline users of a service aimed at a younger demographic. 

Improving the assisted digital guidance and assessment requirements

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...match the updates. The guidance now includes new information and definitions around assisted digital provision, as agreed through our cross-government work. For example, the guidance now explains; when services don’t...

Common assessment recommendations we make to service teams about their assisted digital plans

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...into user needs ensures that nobody is excluded from the service and that taxpayers’ money is used to best effect. Whether a service does or doesn’t pass, we usually make...