Engineering Role Descriptions
At Co-op we are hiring 50 roles in 2022, this is to join our current 60 engineers across 15 small, multidisciplinary digital product teams. We’d love for you to join us, to help understand more about how we work, and…
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We’ve added user research guides to the design system
We recently added 4 user research guides to our Co-op design system. The guides cover: how to plan and prepare for research as a team how to choose the most appropriate research method, and how to use it how to…
2021: remote-first, but business as usual
This time last year, I think we all imagined that working from home so regularly would be temporary. But here we are, a year on. The Digital Product and Design team is not fully remote like we were for most of 2020, but we are a remote-first team now. Although this has had its downsides,…
From digital design manual to design system
In January 2017 we released our digital design manual. Now, 18 months later, the design manual has evolved into a design system. Although it’s been live for months, it’s still (and always will be) a work in progress. We’re sharing…
How we launched ‘Co-operate: get or offer support’ in 9 days
Last week we launched ‘Co-operate: get or offer support during coronavirus’, 9 days after the UK Government announced lockdown. We knew that lockdown would have one of 2 effects on people: I need help. I want to use my time and skills to help people. Our ‘get and offer support’ service connects someone who needs…
We’ve re-platformed the Co-op Legal Services website
We’ve moved Co-op Legal Services website from a content management system (CMS) managed by a third-party supplier to a new CMS – managed and controlled by our internal Digital team. The reason for the change wasn’t because we wanted to re-design the site – it was because the old CMS…
How dividing into smaller delivery teams has improved delivery
The One Web team’s vision is to: Create cost efficient and coherent user experiences for Co-op. We create the tools and technology to help teams across Co-op deliver value to customers and members quickly and easily. It’s a big challenge. We work in a big organisation with lots of moving parts and historically…
Why an up-to-date service map is essential when teams change direction
A couple of weeks ago, we published a post about how it took us 9 days to launch the Get or offer support service on the Co-operate platform. Part of that post explains how we were able to pivot so quickly from our roadmap to respond to emerging user…
Developing visual design across Co-op products and services
The Co-op Digital Design team has recently started to work on products and services that give us the opportunity to develop our visual design. This post is about why that’s important for Co-op as an organisation, and what we’ve done…
Environment is everything: why we research in-person in our food stores
Our Colleague Products team designs technology that transforms how our food stores operate. We’ve always designed closely with our store colleagues, doing in-person research in the store environment to learn about their needs and to test future designs. During the pandemic…
