Thinking outside the box

Great article here!

At a time of increasing financial pressure, service commissioners may be tempted to play safe with design – but Ruth Keeling finds that trying new approaches can produce better results and, ultimately, save public cash

After years of efficiency programmes, the state of public finances is such that departments are being asked to cut expenditure again. How will they do that? One answer may be a radical rethink of the way services are designed – at least, that is the idea behind the Design Council’s ‘Public Service by Design’ programme....