Nikola Goger
@nikolagoger.bsky.social
Head of Design at Ministry of Justice UK She/her 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 Blogging at https://medium.com/@nikolagoger
Opening up good things, we made our most recent #GovDesign call recording on #ServicePatterns public. @jaskang.bsky.social from @tpximpact.com, and @nikolagoger.bsky.social & Martin Ford-Downes from the UK Ministry of Justice shared their respective work on service patterns. Feel free to share it!
International design in government call #37: Service patterns 🇬🇧
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Part 1 of the write-up of our SDinGov Talk "Share & reuse by Design" is now on Medium! "Breaking Down Silos: Why Share and Reuse Matters in Government" medium.com/share-reuse/... @robjmccarthy.bsky.social
Write-up: “Share & Reuse by Design” — Talk at SDinGov 2025
This is a write-up of the talk “Share & Reuse by Design” by Nikola Goger, Rob McCarthy and Martin Ford-Downes at the “SD in Gov”…
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Super excited about my brand new Business mini-Masters from Henley Business School! That was a lot of work!
Want to know how the new digital ID system will work? Good news! I’ve explained how it will almost certainly work here: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/britcard
The "BritCard" digital ID proposal is a good idea
Why I've changed my mind on ID cards
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Thanks everyone who came to listen to our talk about "Share & Reuse by Design" at @sdingov.bsky.social ! It's great to start conversations with people from other departments who are as dedicated to normalising and enabling reuse as we are. <3 @robjmccarthy.bsky.social #sdingov
“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services” @nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov: reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
Reminding us of the scale of the civil service, and the value of looking outside of silos @nikolagoger.bsky.social #sdingov
That was a fun session catching up with the German Justizministerium and digital team! Would love to do more sessions like this with other countries.
Martin Jordan@martinjordan.com · last yr.Singing my usual tune: 🎶 Thank you, international #GovDesign colleagues, for sharing openly! 🙇🏻♂️ Kindly, @nikolagoger.bsky.social, @mahnazy.bsky.social & co from UK Ministry of Justice share how they are staffed, do #serviceDesign & what responsibilities they have with their counterparts in Germany.
‘Building better public services with the Ministry of Justice’ Thanks, @tpximpact.com, for recording this fab #ServicesWeek session on #ServicePatterns and making it available for those who missed it Excellent exchange between @nikolagoger.bsky.social, @jaskang.bsky.social & co.
Building better public services with the Ministry of Justice | TPXimpact
YouTube video by TPXimpact
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We are looking for several Senior Service Designers for teams working on super interesting things all across the Ministry of Justice! Please share with your network! Closing date: 21/04/2025 www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Senior Service Designer:National
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Glad that the the MoD is seeing the value of arts, humanities and social science insight in a fast changing world www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK Ministry of Defence enlists sci-fi writers to prepare for dystopian futures
Imaginations of science fiction community used to help policymakers prepare for potential crises in Britain
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We also have some midlevel Interaction Design roles going! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Interaction Designer:National
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We are looking for another Interaction Design Lead! Come and do important work with a fantastic community and incredibly talented people! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Lead Interaction Designer :National
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One of my favourite piece of work this year went live: designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/03/u... It was fantastic teaming up with @karakane-kk.bsky.social @andyjones.bsky.social @pjmoran.bsky.social and @tonytoners.bsky.social and getting a new version over the line! Well done, team!
Updating design skills in the Government Digital and Data Capability Framework
How and why heads of design across government came together to update the design skills in the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
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There's a line that keeps coming up in so many conversations I'm in these days: It feels like 2004 on the internet again. And that's a good thing, because it means all of today's incumbents won't make it to the next era of the internet. www.anildash.com/2024/10/15/i...
It feels like 2004 again. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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When you watch Psych on TV and catch your office building moonlighting as "New Scotland Yard".
Amazon's AI thinks it's a negative thing if a book is difficult to put down...
In person at MoJ or online!
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social · 2y agoStop the (virtual) presses! We can now confirm that our second speaker for our first event on 24/10/24 will be @jenitennison.com speaking about the new external advisory panel for the “digital centre” in DSIT. Register to join us here : www.meetup.com/transformgov.... Please like and share!
Did a short talk for Ada Lovelace Day about giantesses, collective nouns and weird career pathways. medium.com/@nikolagoger...
Ada Lovelace and standing on the shoulders of giantesses
For Ada Day, I’ve been thinking about my career and my life, and who the female giants are on whose shoulders I’m standing? I want to tell…
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After spending the last 6-12 months successfully making the case for a central team to improve, grow, and maintain the MoJ Design System, I've now written about why I think we need one even though we have the GOV.UK Design System. medium.com/share-reuse/...
Why do we need a design system?
Having the GOV.UK Design System negates the need for any other UK Government design systems. Or does it?
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The writing is part of the Reuse by Design series where @nikolagoger.bsky.social and @mforddownes.bsky.social are making a case for a share + reuse infrastructure in government and how to implement reuse by design. medium.com/share-reuse
Share + Reuse – Medium
Reuse by Design — Making the Case for a Share + Reuse Infrastructure in Government and how to implement Reuse by Design.
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I found an old newspaper from the 70s in the chimney at my new place. The house prices are mindblowing.
