User-centred design is multi-disciplinary! We are so happy to now have user research, service design, content design and interaction design professionals listed in the #UCDFreelancersDirectory. The Unagency doors are open, come on in... And if we ever have physical “offices”, we’ll definitely be baking delicious cakes for them.
Cake Design Studio
Design Services
User-centred design insights. Plus job/candidate sharing for: content, service design, user research, dev, coaching.
About us
User-centred information, product and service design insights and news, plus jobs and supplier profiles. We run the UCD freelancers and contractors directory. Cake Design Studio also offers short, affordable UCD courses: an overall introduction to user-centred design and a content design pathway. Our lead consultant Lizzie Bruce wrote and designed the WCAG Silver Level assessed, usability-evidenced, award-winning Readability Guidelines wiki, on behalf of Content Design London. We repost jobs – when pay is stated and the organisation fits our values – and shout outs from UCD experts looking for new roles or clients. You can also expect reposts on green initiatives, circular economy, spatial design and architecture, accessibility in non-digital design, copyright law, and other curated items. Cake Design Studio also provides design and strategy services with a content-based approach, to help businesses achieve their goals. Visit our site to discover more and discover our e-learning pathway courses for teams and individuals. Header image credit: Milton Avery ‘Spring in Vermont’.
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http://www.cakedesign.studio
External link for Cake Design Studio
- Industry
- Design Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Self-Owned
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- web content, copywriting, social media campaigns, web editing, user-centred design, content design, content strategy, service content design, content reviews, content accessibility reviews, readability reviews, digital content, information architecture, user experience design, and UX writing
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Cake Design Studio reposted this
Better services need good leadership. Martha Edwards shares tips on how new design leaders can impact the delivery of complex services. As Director of Strategic Design in the Government of British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, she recaps her experience of the past months. Martha’s piece on #leading with design appears in the latest #ServiceGazette issue and can also be found online.
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Cake Design Studio reposted this
Recently I spoke with a seasoned designer looking for a move into the public sector, who can't get a foot in the door because of that bloody "GDS experience required" thing that's seemingly everywhere now 😒 I'm sure this is a filter that is more important to recruiters and body shops than the actual hiring managers in GDS and the Departments — most of the many folks I know in our sector know very well that core, transferrable UCD skills exist outside of our bubble. Am I right or wrong? And for my public sector design homies — what advice would you give this person? 💚
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Cake Design Studio reposted this
Hello Linkedin, is anyone available to sign BSL (British Sign Language) of video recordings on a freelance basis? We have a couple of pre-recorded videos we'd like to have translated, and would also like to make a new contact. Any recommendations? Reposts appreciated. #AccessibilityMatters
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What’s the other side of a #job listings site? A #supplier listings site. Find contractors, consultants, trainers and other freelancers for #UCD projects. 25 profile cards currently active. Get listed for £5 a month. Minimum of 2 years’ user-centred design experience required. 🍰
UCD freelancers and contractors directory
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Cake Design Studio reposted this
2 Product Designers - Children's Tech Product - £50k - £60k Super excited to be recruiting for two Product Designers to join a team working on a playful, learning-focused product for kids—a product that, as a parent of three young children, has genuinely made life easier for me. I’m a huge fan! If you're an end-to-end Product Designer with strong UI and UX skills across web and app platforms, I'd love to connect. For one of the roles, experience with internal tooling would be a great asset, though it's not essential. Salary: £50k - £60k. The role offers a remote-first option, with the flexibility to work from the London office if preferred. Message or email ben@zebrapeople.com for more info!
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Cake Design Studio reposted this
25 user-centred design professionals in the Cake Design Studio contractors, consultants, trainers and other freelancers directory as of today! 🥳 This week we welcome user researcher Humza Mullick User Researcher, UCD Consultant and UX writer Yuusuf Oyelola Oladipo. Find us all on the Cake website. #UCD #UserCentredDesign #Digital #UX #UR #Design #ContentDesign #ContentStrategy #TechWriting #Data #IA #Content
UCD freelancers and contractors directory
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Cake Design Studio reposted this
Experience design, digital development and transformation (joining the dots) at a charitable housing association.
Very nice Accessibility Specialist job near me at Medway Council. £35,935 - £41,614 per annum. Hybrid role. Reporting to Lead Content Designer. A great opportunity to improve outcomes for people in Medway - please take a look if you're interested! https://lnkd.in/eNvk87v2
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❗ Justice Digital is looking for a Lead Service Designer! ❗ Lead SD roles in Government don't come up especially often, and with the ability to do this role from any of our National locations, this could be a great opportunity for someone looking to step up, or a sideways move into a new and interesting work space! This one will be working with our teams building digital services for the probation service. We've got an excellent community of Service Designers at Justice Digital, and as a lead you'd be part of building and maintaining that community, as well as providing Service Design leadership to the probation team.
Lead Service Designer:National
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Great to know my #intranet book has been useful for at least 6 #councils, including Essex County Council! If you are a #council, or any other organisation with #InternalComms, there’s 20% off the print book from Blurb until midnight on Wednesday 23rd October... 📙 Blurb site link: https://lnkd.in/dkJZ8MgW
Book promotion time! I wrote ‘Task-based intranets: a guide to user-centred design’ in 2021, and ever since it has been quietly popular as a project tool. Content designers and other roles regularly get in touch to say how useful it’s been on their #intranet projects. I know all these orgs actively used it/are using it as a reference: •London Ambulance •British Red Cross •Greenwich Council Eleanor Dean •Birmingham Council Annie Heath •Warwick District Council Tass Smith •New Forest District Council Matt Louis (and look how accessible their external site is – they wanted the intranet to match) •Scottish government But also, the GovIntranet demo site which UK gov uses, and has been around since about 2013, was based on the task and guide content I created, for DCMS in 2012. Tom Loosemore has blogged on the DCMS intranet getting it right, and the project won the department Permanent Secretary award in 2013. Client intranets I’ve worked on, introducing task-based content, plus designing the IA and tagging strategy, and advising on #UCD and #ContentDesign include: DCMS APHA DLUHC New Forest District Council University of Cambridge So do consider buying this helpful little book of you have an intranet project coming up! And please add any organisation(s) you’ve found my book useful for when working there in the comments – thanks. 📙
‘Task-based intranet content’ book: now published
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