1. How design is shaping thinking at the heart of the UK Government
Dr Andrea Siodmok FRSA, Hon DCL
@AndreaSiodmok
@PolicyLabUK

2. Postcards from the edge

3. Getting started: Building teams and problems
Changing context: Using change to create change
Toolkit: methods and approach
Embracing complexity Co-design and collaborative working
Exploring new practices: Experiments and projects
Design and design thinking in Govt.
Better ways to understand people
Behind the scenes: Setting the conditions
Building futures: Evidence, ideas and implementation
Prototyping ideas with stakeholders
Emerging practice
Measuring short, medium and long term impact

4. 400 priorities Innovation for policy bring to government? Foreign
Farming
Policy
Business / growth Policy
Education Policy
Transport Policy
Energy Policy
Environment Policy
Youth
Policy

5. Open for Business Dr Andrea Siodmok @AndreaSiodmok © LSE 2017

8. Open policy-making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gW9RDB2teg
© LSE 2017

9. The 3 big Ds
Design
Digital
Data

10. Consolidation and Aggregation
NEW
TECHNOLOGY
Data Revolution
Data Science
Data Democratisation
Big Data
Cyber Security
Personal analytics
Virtual Reality
Artificial Intelligence
Flexible working
Smart Spaces
Smart Machines
Internet of Things (IOT)
Connected Home
Machine Learning
Augmented Reality
Automation
Co-working spaces
Wearables
Maker Movement
Smart Robots
Body Sensors
Smart Citizens
Drones
Smart Cities
Genomics
Frugal Innovation
Low carbon economy
Additive Manufacturing
Nano technology
Flexible Manufacturing
Smart Materials
P2P assets
New Materials
Smart Systems
Networked Literacy
Sensing Planet
Synthetic Biology
Consolidation and Aggregation
Smart Energy Grids
Precision Medicine
Agri-tech
Commerce in the Cloud
Quantum Computing
Bitcoin
OPPORTUNITY
Platform Revolution

11. Design decision-makers
Customers
Project Managers
90%
Coders
Marketing
Buyers
Ergonomists
Brand managers
Engineering
Chief Executives
10%
Finance team
Material scientists
Dr Andrea
Andrea Siodmok 2017

12. Co-design Pro-design Co-designed No-design
For people with people by people
Dr Andrea
Andrea Siodmok 2017

13. Service design & digital transformation
Digital Policing
Service design & digital transformation

14. “How can we improve police support for victims of crime in
a digital age?”

20. Speculative Design in Foresight
Future of Ageing
Speculative Design in Foresight

23. Speculative design – prescriptive models
Probably, plausible, possible, preferable
Not about predicting the future – we can’t
About playing the idea of possible futures and using them as tools to better understand the present and to discuss the kind of future people want, and of course, ones people don’t want.

24. Strange Telemetry

28. Lab practice and tools Methods and tools
The methods we use vary depending on the project but routinely include:
Ethnography
Design thinking
Data science
Our tools, techniques and methods are now listed in the Open Policy Making toolkit and are also in our MethodBank on slideshare.

29. Three levels of impact
3. Inspiring new thinking and innovations in policy through our experiments and writing.
Innovative
Policy
New
Thinking
2. Building the skills and knowledge of the policy profession and civil service
New skills, knowledge
& Tools
Improved Performance
1. Delivering new policy solutions through inspiring practical projects
Inspiring
Projects
New
Solutions