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A dashboard for professional users
We’ve designed a dashboard to show users a list of connection requests they’ve sent. We’ve considered the search, sort and filter options we provide to help users find a connection request.
Connect families to support
26 April 2023
Navigation on the Family Hubs services
We’re adding a global navigation on Connect families to support and Manage connection requests.
Connect families to support
26 April 2023
Prototype design changes for MVS 2
Enhancements to the prototype to enable exploration of the end-to-end user experience.
STS Plan technology for your school
11 August 2023
Standardising the design and formatting of infographics
In order to improve user experience, we looked at creating a standard design approach to the inclusion of infographics and diagrams within the training content.
Early years child development training
31 August 2023
Consolidating start pages and URLs
We are providing a single URL and start page for Connect families to support and our Manage family support services and accounts.
Connect families to support
8 September 2023
Making it easier for users to understand a funding allocation change
We’ve improved the variance indicator feature that draws users’ attention to funding allocation changes. We wanted to make its purpose really clear, and it needed to be accessible to all users.
Manage Your Education and Skills Funding (MYESF)
15 September 2023
Allowing VCS organisations to pause requests
We have given more control to VCS users to allow them to pause incoming requests.
Connect families to support
29 September 2023
MYESF integration: Initial designs
With a new team on board, a new plan in place, and reduced content for the beta release, we explored designs in Figma
DfE Connect
28 July 2023
New features to support the user journey within the training
We looked at additional features that would support users in completing the training content in any order.
Early years child development training
21 November 2023
Designing the new resources feature
We designed a feature to hold resources for child and family social workers.
Develop your career in child and family social work
27 November 2023
Improving the training progress bar component
We looked at ways which we could improve the initial progress bar component and connected user experience.
Early years child development training
30 November 2023
Helping users to analyse their General annual grant (GAG) statements
GAG is a key allocation funding stream for academies, so we're adding new features that make it easier for them to understand and analyse changes to their funding.
Manage Your Education and Skills Funding (MYESF)
7 December 2023
Forming our alpha research plans
Outlining our initial ideas, limitations and research plans.
Education, health and care plan (EHCP) digital reform
20 December 2023
Creating our alpha prototype
Taking insights from discovery and the information gathered through user research, supplier interviews and workshops with SEND and digital leads to form our first prototype.
Education, health and care plan (EHCP) digital reform
21 December 2023
Iterating our alpha prototype for beta
Following initial testing and taking account of the insights from the 1-2-1 research and workshops and working out how we frame and position our next porotype.
Education, health and care plan (EHCP) digital reform
15 January 2024
Simplifying the general annual grant (GAG) statement journey
We’re acting on user feedback to make MYESF’s statement comparison functionality easier to find and use.
Manage Your Education and Skills Funding (MYESF)
31 January 2024
Redesigning the ‘panellist portal’
We made a prototype of a redesigned panellist portal to address known user pain points and accessibility issues.
Refer serious misconduct by a teacher in England
8 February 2024
Iterating the member of the public journey
We updated the prototype for the member of the public journey following feedback from user research.
Refer serious misconduct by a teacher in England
14 February 2024
Replacing family hubs with locations
User research showed that we needed to change the way locations were added to ‘Manage family support services’ in order to improve the family hubs products.
Connect families to support
4 March 2024
Updating the add a service journey
We identified some improvements that could be made to the way services were added in ‘Manage family support services’ (Manage) to make it easier for end users to find the support they need.
Connect families to support
27 March 2024
Designing for feedback
We designed a new feedback form for our resource and learning feature.
Develop your career in child and family social work
27 March 2024
Updating the eligibility checker front page
Exploring content options to improve understand of eligibility criteria on the apply for qualified teacher status (QTS) eligibility checker front page.
Apply for QTS
10 May 2024
Providing key performance indicator (KPI) metrics
We wanted to find a way to display KPIs on ‘Manage family support services and accounts’ (Manage).
Connect families to support
16 April 2024
First redesign of the service
Our first redesign of the service included changing the name, allowing TRN searches, filtering by restricted teachers and by organisation, adding a teacher to an organisation and simplifying the content.
Check a teacher's record
28 March 2023
First redesign of the service
We created a separate service for checking if a teacher appears on the children's barred list.
Check the children’s barred list
2 June 2023