Our communities of practice
Communities of practice help to drive the learning and development of the professions and their practice through sharing ideas, skills and experience.
The design community meets every Thursday between 1pm and 4pm. This time is used to share cross-community information and learnings, for example, checking in with the cross-design working groups progress, or inviting cross-gov people to talk.
We crowd source the themes and topics on Slack and in meet-ups. People can suggest ideas, volunteer to help facilitate or run a session on our Trello board. We also join up with other professions, such as user research or product to run multidisciplinary meet-ups. We encourage designers to set up user-centred profession meet-ups with their portfolio or business area, too.
To join the design community send a request to #design in DfE Slack.
Profession time in DfE
Every Thursday in DfE we have dedicated profession time. In practice, this means that between 2-4pm each profession can use some – or all – of this time for professional development.
This time can be used for:
- cross-design group objectives, for example, style guide or patterns
- content, service and interaction design specific meet-ups
- crits, either in profession or profession families
- personal learning and development time
Current working groups
There are currently groups led by volunteers from within the design community working on:
If you would like to get involved with one of the community groups, reach out on the DfE Slack channel #design.