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dxw @dxw.com · 27/08/2026

We're hiring for a number of roles here at dxw, including: - Developer - Senior Developer - Lead Technologist - Product Manager/Senior Product Manager Find all the info on the roles and how to apply here 👉 www.dxw.com/careers/#ope...

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dxw @dxw.com · 31/07/2026

Our July newsletter is out now 📨 We're talking about what employee ownership means for dxw and the role of junior developers in the age of AI (amongst lots of other good stuff). Take a look and subscribe here tr.ee/dxw-newslett...

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dxw @dxw.com · 02/07/2026

At the @thekingsfund.bsky.social conference, Marianne noticed "a clear shift from AI as a technical innovation problem to AI as a systems, governance, and service design challenge" in healthcare. "This creates both risk of moving too slowly, and opportunity for real service transformation."

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dxw @dxw.com · 23/06/2026

Our June newsletter is now in your inboxes 📬 This month, we're talking about: - an AI use case with a real impact at DfE - the role of leadership in service transformation - the language around 'AI guardrails' - and why accessibility audits matter more than ever 🔗 tr.ee/dxw-newslett...

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dxw @dxw.com · 19/06/2026

Today is Employee Ownership Day 🎉 We've been employee owned for almost 5 years now. It helps us protect our independence, stay focused on our mission, and make decisions for the long term. If you’re interested in how employee ownership works in practice for us, take a look 👉 tr.ee/dxw-playbook

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dxw @dxw.com · 11/06/2026

Time to celebrate... it's our birthday! 🥳 Today marks 18 years of dxw. Thanks to our team and friends that make us who we are. Here's to the next 18!

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dxw @dxw.com · 30/03/2026

Last week in London, Leeds and Bristol, we held our first company-wide AI vibe codeathon 🤖 We played around with early stage fixes in Health, Probation, and web hosting; an app for finding a pub garden with some sunshine currently on it; and a fake incident scenarios simulator for SREs.

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dxw @dxw.com · 13/03/2026

Isobel, Marianne and Selina joined an NHS England digital screening UCD day on Tuesday, connecting with other researchers and designers to share experiences and develop their community practices. Plus, Selina was interviewed about her work on lung cancer screening 👏 tr.ee/NEDYQ3j_gJ

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dxw @dxw.com · 13/02/2026

Marianne and Melissa joined the NHS England teams for some much valued in-person workshopping and design sprint days this week. There're some more write-ups to come from the team soon, but you can have a read through their recent blog posts and insights here 👉 tr.ee/NEDYQ3j_gJ

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dxw @dxw.com · 06/02/2026

In our latest newsletter, we've been taking a look into the work our teams are doing with the @departmentforedu.bsky.social, including Ming's 2-part blog post series on prototyping public services with AI. Check it out and subscribe here 👉 tr.ee/dxw-december...

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dxw @dxw.com · 30/01/2026

Service Design Principal Marianne's been out and about this week visiting @england.nhs.uk's mobile breast screening units, chatting to the staff and getting to understand more about how they work. Here she is with NHS colleagues Veronika in Helmsley, and Elliot in Gateshead tr.ee/NuMq6q

Two women face the camera, smiling. They are wearing hooded coats are standing outside on a grassy area, in front of a mobile healthcare clinic with 'York and Scarbrough Teaching Hospitals' written on its side.

A woman and man stand outside a small healthcare clinic, smiling towards the camera.

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dxw @dxw.com · 20/01/2026

We're pleased to sponsor @transformgovtalks.bsky.social – an ongoing series of monthly meet-ups for anyone who wants to learn about and discuss improving government. Their next event is next Wednesday, 28th January, and you can join online or in-person luma.com/pc7ji8sg

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dxw @dxw.com · 24/12/2025

If you’ve been to… well, any events recently, there’s a high chance you’ll have seen us dxw folk around. There’ve been some great opportunities to catch up with and learn from colleagues and friends face-to-face. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been up to tr.ee/dxw-december...

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dxw @dxw.com · 21/11/2025

"Exhausting (in a good way)" is one bit of feedback we received about UKCharityCamp, which we think sums things up quite nicely! Thanks again to everyone that joined us last Thursday. Let us know if you've got notes from sessions or blog posts to share. We'll be blogging at www.dxw.com/blog soon...

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dxw @dxw.com · 19/11/2025

Harriet and Stu attended a great @govcampcymru.bsky.social the other week. Harriet's highlights included hearing about the importance of building services with digital access and inclusion at their heart, practical use cases for AI, and the differences in the policy making between Wales and England👏

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dxw @dxw.com · 31/10/2025

Our team working with NHS England attended the recent breast screening team day in London. Jane, Marianne, Melissa, Farrah joined a bunch of dxw friends and colleagues from all teams across the breast screening pathway. Spot Marianne speaking at the front in the last pic! 👀

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dxw @dxw.com · 30/10/2025

In our latest newsletter, we’re (mostly) looking at AI. There's Lola’s work with Educate Ventures Research into frameworks for AI adoption in Higher Education, a case study on thoughtful AI use in fundraising, some links to great events, and other things we've been liking recently 👉 tr.ee/A7V9gP

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dxw @dxw.com · 01/10/2025

How can Higher Education institutions get genuine benefits from AI? This first blog post co-authored by Lola Harre at dxw and Madiha Khan at Educate Ventures Research shares 2 practical frameworks and real-world examples to help the sector turn AI experiments into lasting impact 👉 tr.ee/M4luJf

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dxw @dxw.com · 19/09/2025

Still not sure if @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social is for you? Harry's here to shed some light on what it's all about. This year's event takes place this year on 13th November in Birmingham. Get your free tickets here 👉 tr.ee/1e3pVbRaOg

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dxw @dxw.com · 12/09/2025

Our latest newsletter is out! 📬 This month we hear from our team working with NHS England about trust, influence, and relationship-building in digital healthcare transformation, and there are some interesting upcoming events that dxw-ers are hosting 👉 tr.ee/dxw-septembe...

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dxw @dxw.com · 08/09/2025

Heading to this year's @sdingov.bsky.social conference? Be sure to check out Harry’s session on 18th September. He'll be sharing prototypes and diving deeper into what modern digital government could look like in practice tr.ee/JWRE3W

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dxw @dxw.com · 29/08/2025

In case you missed it, take another look at Head of Delivery, Chris’s latest blog on capability contracts – what they are, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them as a client 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/06/as-a...

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dxw @dxw.com · 20/08/2025

We’re excited to have our principal interaction designer Harry Scott-Trimble hosting a session at this year’s @sdingov.bsky.social conference! Harry will share what the new blueprint for modern digital government could mean for the services we all rely on govservicedesign.net/programme/ne...

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dxw @dxw.com · 01/08/2025

Our latest newsletter is out! 📬 In it, our CEO Dave talks about the 'digital public realm' and changing shape of public service provision, Marianne discusses the often invisible work involved in improving services, and GovPress developer James shares his career story 👉 mailchi.mp/dxw/june-new...

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dxw @dxw.com · 22/07/2025

Up now on the blog, our CEO David Mann shares some thoughts on the different ways digital public services are now provided. And why this means a broadening of the focus for dxw’s work, so we can increase our impact in delivering our mission. Read here 👉 www.dxw.com/2025/07/the-...

Teal coloured text graphic, with white text reading: By David Mann, The digital public realm and how we're increasing our impact.

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dxw @dxw.com · 26/06/2025

Our latest newsletter is out 📣 This month we celebrate Employee Ownership Day, dive into capability contracts and how to make them work better for clients and their users, share some of our work with Wellcome and more👇 mailchi.mp/dxw/june-new...

dxw colleague Lola, sitting and smiling as she listens to a talk

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dxw @dxw.com · 20/06/2025

Today is Employee Ownership Day 2025: a celebration of what it means to be an employee-owned business. This year’s theme is #eoSmile It’s a less well known ownership model but one more and more businesses are exploring and we're proud to be part of the community. #EODay25

dxw employees stood outside Kings Cross station holiday an EO Day banner and smiling

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dxw @dxw.com · 04/06/2025

We're looking forward to being at #LocalGovCamp tomorrow with lots of with digital folks from councils across the UK. dxw-ers Alex, Melissa and Ben will be there running a workshop on where to start when experimenting with AI. Hope to see you there! 👉 digitaltransform.org.uk/2025/04/loca...

LocalGovCamp: AI powered public services of tomorrow, Thursday 5th June, AWS HQ, 1 Principal Place, London, EC2A 2BA

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dxw @dxw.com · 23/05/2025

In this month's newsletter Dave shares his thoughts on why the Procurement Act alone won't fix government procurement and level the playing field for SMEs. We also welcome Alex as our first Director of Data and Product and introduce the GOV.UK Content Block Manager. 👉 mailchi.mp/dxw/may-news...

Some of the dxw team sitting around a meeting table, listening and smiling.

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dxw @dxw.com · 17/04/2025

Making a positive impact: improving services for schools so they can focus on pupils Our impact report shows how we've worked with DfE to turn off legacy systems and open up opportunities to use advanced tech like AI. Have a read 👉 www.dxw.com/dxw-impact/

Making an impact: improving services for schools so they can focus on pupils

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dxw @dxw.com · 16/04/2025

Just like death and taxes, changes to government facts are inevitable. Editors drop what they’re doing and comb through pages to make updates. What if we could store facts in one place so updates happen once and ripple out? Introducing the GOV.UK Content Block Manager👇 www.dxw.com/2025/04/maki...

The Content Block Manager being used to update information about the Basic State Pension

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dxw @dxw.com · 09/04/2025

Making a positive impact: getting critical information to the public at speed Our impact report shows how our hosting and support services have enabled government teams to create and publish high profile campaign sites like Floods Destroy and Fire Kills. Find out more 👇 www.dxw.com/dxw-impact/

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dxw @dxw.com · 02/04/2025

This week we welcomed Ben and Florence to the dxw team. They’ve joined our design team and popped into the London office to meet our CEO @dmits.bsky.social

Ben, Dave and Florence stood outside on the rooftop of dxw london office

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dxw @dxw.com · 31/03/2025

Making a positive impact: helping people leaving prison get back on their feet Our impact report shows how we've improved lives for communities around the UK. Working with MoJ, we improved referrals to rehabilitative support to help keep people out of prison. bit.ly/3XA9Hcg

Test says Making a postive impact. Helping people leaving prison get back on their feet.

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dxw @dxw.com · 17/03/2025

Our latest newsletter features our work with the Ministry of Justice to create digital services that reduce the chance of someone reoffending and ending up back in prison. We look at what we’ve achieved so far and ahead to the difference a fully digital service could make. bit.ly/4hfeOW7

Isobel stood up smiling talking to Nina who is also stood up with her back to the camera

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dxw @dxw.com · 10/03/2025

There's loads of great sessions underway as Digital Leaders Public Sector AI week kicks-off. There's still time to sign-up to hear from @dmits.bsky.social and @harrytrimble.bsky.social at their session on Wednesday as they share their vision for transparency in public service design bit.ly/3QgtlWB

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dxw @dxw.com · 07/03/2025

Yesterday one of our senior interaction designers, Alex, visited Leeds Beckett University to chat to a group of third year Creative Media Technology students. Alex shared her journey to interaction design and offered students advice on their portfolios and the career paths available to them.

Course tutor Megan sat next to Alex from dxw

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dxw @dxw.com · 11/02/2025

What does the new blueprint for digital government mean for the services we all use? As part of Digital Leaders' Public Sector AI week @dmits.bsky.social and harrytrimble.bsky.social will share their vision for transparency in public service design Join them on 12 March at 12noon bit.ly/3QgtlWB

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dxw @dxw.com · 06/02/2025

In our latest newsletter dxw Trustee (and Founder) Harry shares his thoughts on the blueprint for modern digital government. We also share how we've been helping young people engage with #GenerativeAI, how to find a great #DeliveryManager and some pointers on the #OnlineSafetyAct bit.ly/42FkLbi

Hannah stood up holding a laptop talking to Alex

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dxw @dxw.com · 18/01/2025

We're here and ready to go for @ukgovcamp.bsky.social 2025! Pop across for a chat if you want to find out more about what we've been up to with MoJ, DfE, DSIT and lots of other folk around government and the charity sector. Or just grab a sticker :) #ukgc25

dxw stand in the MoJ atrium with our banner, tote bags and stickers

Close up of our dxw stickers and tote bags on a table.

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dxw @dxw.com · 15/01/2025

We're chuffed to be sponsoring UKGovCamp again this year, and looking forward to catching up with lots of folks on Saturday. Loads to talk about - have the missions landed? what's happening with digital inclusion? what's the reality behind the AI headlines? etc. Hope to see you there :) #ukgc25

dxw and UKGovCamp logos with a message saying platinum sponsor of UKGovCamp 2025

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dxw @dxw.com · 20/12/2024

We know some folks will be working over the next couple of weeks. Thank you ❤️ If you’re taking time off over the Christmas period and celebrating, have a great time! We’ll see you in 2025...

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dxw @dxw.com · 26/11/2024

dxw's @dmits.bsky.social and FD Adelle Noor are at the EOA annual conference in Telford today. Always great to hear about the continued growth in the number of employee owned companies, more than doubling in the last 2 years. And good to learn more about the experiences of fellow EO companies.

Main stage at the EOA conference in front of a packed audience

Conference slide showing the increase in employee owned companies from 1000 in 2022 to over 2000 in 2024

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dxw @dxw.com · 11/11/2024

Thanks to the organisers and everyone who went along to GovCampCymru on Friday 👏 We really appreciated hearing direct from folks at the front-line of digital transformation in Wales. About both the successes and frustrations. If you'd like to pick up any of those conversations, drop us a message.

Chris and Harry standing in front of the dxw banner at GovCampCymru

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dxw @dxw.com · 07/11/2024

Clare explains why we need to be celebrating behind-the-scenes changemakers as much as the ideas people when we assess the value of new technologies like AI. Sign up to our newsletter for more insight and opinion. bit.ly/3Cjyl8U #GovernmentDigital #PublicServices #LegacyTech

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dxw @dxw.com · 24/10/2024

In our latest newsletter @dmits.bsky.social and @richardpope.org explore how to create better public services as part of DigitalLeaders' week. Plus we answer your questions on tackling legacy tech and Marianne shares 3 ways service design can help teams move away from old systems. bit.ly/3NC9Bez

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dxw @dxw.com · 11/10/2024

@richardpope.org will now join Dave in this session next week 👇 Experts in the what - and crucially - the how, they'll discuss the future of our public services. And what DSIT can learn from the institutional memory in and around government. Mon 14 Oct, 1pm week.digileaders.com/talks/drivin...

Driving forward modern digital government, 1pm 14 October

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dxw @dxw.com · 27/09/2024

Driving forward modern digital government - are the stars finally aligning? In this Digital Leaders’ session we'll discuss what we’ve seen in the first weeks of the new Administration that gives us cause for both optimism and concern. Join us on Monday 14 October, 1-2pm bit.ly/3BkBDbD

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dxw @dxw.com · 26/09/2024

Laura and Yasmine are getting caffeinated ready for today at #LocalGovCamp. Have a good one and please grab them for a chat. We want to hear about the main things on your mind. And with the Labour Party conference just gone, if there are any signs yet of the change promised by the new Government.

Laura and Yasmine at the dxw stand with a large cup of coffee

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dxw @dxw.com · 21/09/2024

We’re expanding our network of freelance developers. We’re looking for folks with .NET experience atm, but are always getting new projects with new needs. Even if you’re not looking right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Sign up below and please share! airtable.com/appDIojHBNZS...

A small group of devs sitting with their Macs

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