Our new strategy: User-centered design
Our new strategy: User-centered design
Explore and champion the needs of our users, helping DIT design services that maximise successful international trade and the delivery of its outcomes
Content designers make international trade easier for users
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Jennifer Staves, Content Lead, Posted on:
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Content, Digital Services, People and Skills
Content Lead Jennifer Staves shares why it’s great to work in content design at the Department for International Trade.
Dads in Digital: our 5 tips for Shared Parental Leave
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Adam Cook, Delivery Manager and Alex Lamond, Product Manager, Posted on:
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Diversity and Inclusion, Flexible working
Flexible working including Shared Parental Leave helps build diverse, dynamic teams and deliver better outcomes. Find out how to best approach it.
In Product or Project Delivery? Become a Service Owner
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Dan Wintercross, Service Owner, Posted on:
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Digital Services, People and Skills
Dan, service owner at DIT, offers an insight into the most interesting aspects of his job.
We’re hiring: join a digital, data and technology team at the heart of the global economy
Find out what it’s like to work in Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) at the Department for International Trade and what our people say.
Data Science at DIT: harnessing the potential of Natural Language Processing
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Tony Coyne, Head of Data Science, Posted on:
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Artificial Intelligence, Data, Technology
Due to advances in computing power, new forms of analysis are now possible which in the past would have been impractical.
Celebrating Ada Lovelace
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Digital, Data and Technology team, Posted on:
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Diversity and Inclusion, People and Skills, Technology
Two developers in our team share their career journey, things they like about their job and advice to help more women start a career in technology.
UK government emerging as international data and tech thought leader
The Department for International Trade (DIT) and a group of private sector innovators joined the world’s biggest names in the tech industry at SxSW Conference in Austin, Texas recently. The department, which is noted as industry-leading in its aspirational use …
More than words: why copywriting and content are different and why it matters for international trade
If the Department for International Trade (DIT) is to drive £1 trillion of exports in the next 4 years, it is going to have to do things better online. Historically, the Department has been incredibly effective at supporting and marketing …
Improving export licensing - calling new exporters
SPIRE, the faithful old system used to apply for export licences for controlled goods, software and technology, is reaching the end of its lifetime. And for the last few months a team in Westminster has been working on its replacement, …
Starting out in digital trade
After starting at what was UK Trade & Investment a few weeks ago, with the remit of improving exporting content, I didn’t really know what to expect. With several new staff starting around me, though, I knew we could work …
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