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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

Check your eligibility initial alpha

Initial concept and first rounds of testing

Check your eligibility

24 October 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