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At Bit Zesty, we take an agile approach to running projects. Agile projects start with a “discovery” phase. This is when you find out who your users are and what they need from your service. But over time these things can, and do, change. At…
SXT Health is a social enterprise whose mission is to improve access to sexual health information and services across the UK. At the beginning of 2015, they made the decision to further expand their digital offering and after the initial Discovery phase, it was decided…
Without knowing it, millions of people around the world rely on Ruby, and Rails, our technologies of choice – from streaming video games, to finding holiday accommodation and listening to their favourite music. In this blog post, we will mention some of the most famous…
SXT Health is a social enterprise whose mission is to improve access to sexual health information and services across the UK. Having worked with us for around five years (in which time we’ve designed and built two applications) Bit Zesty was the SXT team’s first…
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are some of the most prestigious business awards in the country. They’re highly competitive, with a large number of applicants and a rigorous application process. So when we were selected to rebuild their software, we were very excited. However, every…
In the 90s, a Japanese developer called Yukihiro Matsumoto – after struggling to find a programming language that was both powerful and easy to use – decided instead to create his own. Ruby was born. It was first released publicly in 1995, however didn’t gather…
This is a second post in the series on how we followed Government Digital Services (GDS) Service Design Phases for the rebuild of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise service. You can learn more about the background of the project, Discovery and Alpha phases in the…
Government Digital Service (GDS) was set up in 2011 by Cabinet Office with a task to transform the provision of government digital services by putting users’ needs before the needs of government. We have been lucky enough to work with GDS since early 2013 and…
Most digital services created for GOV.UK have to go through at least one Digital By Default service assessment – the evaluation process designed by Government Digital Services (GDS) to make sure that every part of GOV.UK – no matter who created it – meets the…