Overview
Mastek’s UCD team is a diverse community of user-centred design specialists, with a wide range of complementary approaches and tools to address your organisational and user objectives and priorities.
We’re experienced, agile and innovative, able to work across all stages in the development lifecycle or co-design a personalised solution alongside you.
We can provide end-to-end total-experience design, drop in a squad to a phase, or offer resource augmentation, strategic enablement services and coaching.
Resource augmentation, consultancy, coaching and mentoring
We’re agile, collaborative and trusted, with specific experience in healthcare, secure government and the private sector
End-to-end solutions – delivering across all project phases to live
Phase squad – a complete team handling one or more phases
Resource augmentation – one or more team members can join your team
Design lead augmentation – taking on a lead role for your project
Coaching and mentoring – standalone training or knowledge transfer
Deep insight, user journeys and story mapping
Interaction, prototyping and visual design
End-to-end service design
Content design and strategy
DesignOps and ResearchOps
Innovation workshops
Design thinking
Our teams have a wealth of experience across a range of sectors:
Home Office
Ministry of Defence
NHS England
Department of Work and Pensions
Private sector
Mastek integration
We work as individuals, teams, cross-functionally and alongside colleagues in the wider digital enablement team, as well as specialists in the following fields.
Oracle and enterprise apps
Data, automation and AI
Cloud enhancement services
eCommerce
Application engineering
Enterprise, solution and data architecture
Problems We Solve
Interviews, survey and data analysis powered the insight we used to identify user needs, and focus on where we could deliver most value
User research, co-design, prototyping and iterative testing drive the successful delivery of the DWP 'Find a job' service
Building Trust
Building Trust
UCD in action
The team is built upon four specialisms
User research
User research establishes the ‘who’, ‘what’ and ‘why’ – and any frustrations and pain points – of real users that interact with your processes, people and artefacts. It employs a range of qualitative and quantitative tools to get to the truth about the impact of your organisation on its audience, and establish the baseline for a useful, usable and satisfying solution.
User research is involved at all stages of projects, working to ensure that users’ stories and priorities persist, and that iterative testing is robust and unbiased. Finally, our team operates by an ethical mandate, and collaborates to protect everyone involved with the project against inadvertent harm.
Service design
Service design uses research and analysis to uncover your strategic goals and user needs, an approach that delivers measurably successful results through the orchestration of people, processes and technologies.
Service designers also employ co-design methodologies to build and empower relationships so teams are better able to collectively diagnose and solve problems.
Drawing on evidence and insight, service design envisions and designs end-to-end experiences, driving meaningful transformation across your entire organisation.
Interaction design
Interaction design is a human–computer interaction approach, aiming to optimise the user experience (emotionally and physically) between people and products (such as apps, chatbots or websites).
Interaction design’s goal is to – through an iterative test-and-learn process – help people achieve their objectives as seamlessly as possible across your organisation’s touchpoints, and to leave them feeling positive about their experience. This includes accessibility and inclusivity, and wider considerations of neurodivergence, fluctuating accessibility needs, dynamic disabilities and cultural and contextual considerations.
Content design
Content designers build on insight collected during user research and testing to figure out what information people need to solve their problems (in the context of an organisation’s goals).
They create information architectures and flow, build content models, plan language, tone and digital standards, create copy, and test and iterate to decide which words work best, and where. It can also define a governance approach to content management.
Also, content design plays a specific role in content accessibility and inclusivity, and supports with typography, content layout, and defining what success looks like.