We are currently recruiting for a service designer to join our team here at Design Wales and support the delivery of our service design programme. It’s a great place to work and an excellent opportunity to play a role in building the kills, expertise and knowledge...

I was recently interviewed by Marc Thomas from Plastik magazine, he came to PDR and interviewed me last week and then published the article online. You can read this here.

For most of this week we have a group from Silesia (Poland) here in Cardiff attending our first DE-SERV workshop on design-led innovation projects in public services. The group includes Polish designers and representatives from Design Silesia, who, as part of the Silesian Marshall’s Office,...

I recently met Ruth Dineen through her son, who works at the fantastic organisation Spice. She has also set up a rather excellent co-production group that aims to be an open-access, not-for-profit co-production toolkit to foster and nurture co-production across the UK: http://coproductionresource.wordpress.com   She is...

Design Wales sits within the The National Centre for Product Design & Development Research (PDR) and we are looking to recruit a design management advisor to work with Welsh businesses between Feb 2012 – July 2013.   Job Description The post holder must have a...

We’ve been working with S8080 in Swansea (one of our SD4D companies) to create a short and sweet explainer animation about the Service Design Programme – Enjoy!   Watch the full animation here: http://vimeo.com/33403934    

We’re working with the Wales Millennium Centre and Age Cymru to design a new service that prevents older people becoming isolated and cut-off from society. To design this properly we want to test some of initial prototypes with potential service users and are looking for...

Nick Marsh, design director at Sidekick Studios recently came to Cardiff to speak about Service Design and Social Innovation. The event was put on by the service design programme and was held at The Pierhead in Cardiff Bay on the 13th October. It was one of...

Design Wales is based at The National Centre for Product Design, Development and Research (PDR). The centre is situated on the UWIC campus in Cardiff. It’s a great centre with loads of new technology, clever people doing research and new products being designed and manufactured. The...

We’re currently working with a number of manufacturing companies across Wales to help them use service design to win more work, get closer to customers and deliver better services. One company that I particularly enjoy working with is Gwent Cables in Llantarnham near Cwmbran.  ...