Design for Policy

A Creative Bureaucracy Festival adjacent gathering of policy designers from around the world co-organised by the EU Policy Lab, German government’s DigitalService, and the UK’s Cabinet Office.

What’s the role of design in shaping policy? What’s the role of trained designers in informing laws, regulations, and procedures? More and more designers are working further ‘upstream’ than before.

Declining trust in government and low levels of satisfaction with public services shows us that we need a system-wide transformation in public service delivery. How can we embed agile, iterative and user-centred ways of working into policymaking? What does bottom-up policymaking look like?

While most designers work on services and design interactions between users and governments, the role of dedicated policy designers is now firmly established. But what they do on a day-to-day basis differs a lot. In this international morning gathering, we will bring policy designers of different kinds together – to share work, approaches and questions. 

Don't forget to get your ticket for the Creative Bureaucracy Festival on 5 June, too!

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Organisers

• David Martens, Designer, EU Policy Lab
• Kara Kane, Head of Design for Test, Learn and Grow, UK's Cabinet Office
• Martin Jordan, Head of Design & User Research at the German government’s Digital Service

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