Design Ops
The Design Ops team in the Department for Education support designers all across the department.
Who we are
We're made up of a multidisciplinary team of design and research professionals.

Adam Dumbell
User researcher

Andy Jones
Head of Design

Kerry Lyons
Senior content designer

Vacant
Senior accessibility specialist
What we do
We support the following user-centred design professions across the department:
The user resesarch profession is supported by the Research Ops team.
We support designers with:
- setting standards and guidance for good design practices
- working across services to identify and publish common components and patterns
- creating tools and services to improve design processes
- raising awareness and understanding of design and accessibility in DfE
We also aim to raise profession maturity across the department.
How we can help you
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Understand standards
Standards are key to good delivery and we can help you understand how to apply then in your work.
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Recruitment and onboarding
We can help with making sure you've got the right job specs and that people have the right tools and tech from day 1.
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Tools
Advice and guidance on the tools you can, and cannot, use in DfE, or support in getting new tools approved.
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Be a critical friend
We can help to de-risk your services and products by offering guidance, recommendations, or advice on design problems.
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Get in touch
You can contact us in several ways:
- DfE slack
- #design-ops
- X-GOV Slack
- #dfe-design-ops