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Free sharing and reuse - digital magic? Part 3

Free sharing and reuse is a key approach to doing digital better. In this final part 3 we look at how to share, in particular at the different means we have to share in order to realise the benefits of freely sharing reusable digital assets..

9 Mar 2026

Open source Government Software Development

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Designing to integrate AI into personalised government services

CYB’s Senior Service Designer Erlend Prendergast writes about how government can provide more personalised AI-enabled services with smart design decisions

1 May 2025

Large Language Models AI Service design

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The importance of research and user-centred design in healthcare

Drawing on her experience of the healthcare sector, CYB’s Lead User Researcher Anita Chandra writes about how the NHS can benefit from putting research and UCD at its centre

2 Apr 2025

Healthcare NHS Service design

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A Christmas letter, 2024

Founder/Managing Director Ben Stewart reflects on an eventful and successful year for CYB, and looks forward to 2025

18 Dec 2024

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Caution Your Blast named as supplier to Digital Capability for Health 2 Framework

CYB joins the likes of IBM, Ernst & Young and Thoughtworks onto the Crown Commercial Service’s list of 22 companies providing digital solutions to improve the NHS and other public sector healthcare bodies

12 Dec 2024

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What is it like to roll out a digital service to every country in the world?

Working on a service that requires a global rollout is exciting - but also full of obstacles. CYB’s Associate Project/Delivery Manager Ros Vaughan writes about her experience

24 Oct 2024

Government digital Service design Transformation

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What I learned conducting user research for an AI service

Building AI services means new ways of working. CYB’s User Researcher Truly Capell writes about what she learned working on the FCDO’s first public-facing AI-enabled service

24 Jul 2024

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How Give A Little uses lean methods to make cashless fundraising more affordable

Give A Little’s Product Manager James Alden-John writes about how CYB’s point of donation software platform helps charities by adopting a lean approach

13 Jun 2024

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Caution Your Blast announces launch of new UK Government marriage service

CYB has built a new service for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office that makes it easier for British people to get married or register a civil partnership abroad

15 May 2024

Digital service FCDO Service design

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Research Ops at CYB: creating tailored frameworks for success

CYB’s User Research Lead Anita Chandra writes about how we developed a bespoke Research Ops model that has already helped our big name clients

11 Oct 2023

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How Give A Little does things differently

In the last video of our series, Director of Software Engineering Max Stewart talks about the ways in which our point of donation software is transforming the charity sector

11 Sept 2023

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Staying one step ahead of security threats

In our latest video detailing how CYB use new ways of working, our Head of Engineering Ali Salaman talks about how we approach software security

26 Jul 2023

Introducing CYB’s research philosophy

Introducing CYB’s research philosophy

CYB’s Head of Research, Katie John, presents the key values and ideas that underpin our work in the area

12 May 2023

User Research Research Philosophy

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World Creativity and Innovation Day 2023: how we innovate at CYB

As the United Nations celebrates the role of creativity and innovation in worldwide problem solving, we start a video series on innovation at CYB

21 Apr 2023

What place does innovation have at CYB?

Innovation at CYB: what does it mean?

At the start of month where Caution Your Blast is looking at innovation in tech, our Founder/Managing Director Ben Stewart considers what the term means in a modern context, and how we innovate at CYB

9 Mar 2023

How to run a successful hackathon

How to run a successful hackathon

CYB's head of engineering, Ali Salaman, shares all you need to know to organise a successful hackathon.

26 Sept 2022

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How to transition into the wonderful world of service design

In this "back to school" blog series, CYB's head of design, Christine Fent shares how you can transition into service design and why now might be the perfect time of year to reassess your career path.

8 Sept 2022

Service design career change

One week on - Hackathon 2022

One week on from Caution Your Blast’s first hackathon of 2022 - how it went, what we did, and what we learned.

It’s been a whole week since Caution Your Blast’s first hackathon of 2022, and CYB’s Paul Williams has been reflecting on the event - how it went, what we did, and what we learned.

27 May 2022

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Why CYB is partnering with Climate Edge for its next hackathon

CYB and Climate Edge aim to help smallholder farmers upscale their business

17 May 2022

Climate Innovation Hackathon

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How Christine Fent used service design to help UK citizens stranded abroad during Covid-19 lockdowns

Christine Fent, Head of Design at Caution Your Blast

28 Apr 2022

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World Creativity and Innovation Day: Using digital as a force for good

CYB highlights a project that helped emerging countries improve their digital capabilities

21 Apr 2022

Digital capability Government Innovation

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Give A Little and a pandemic

Looking back on how we've iterated Give A Little over the past year

9 Aug 2021

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Can the COVID cycling trend be helped by digital?

Can the COVID cycling trend be helped by digital?

3 Jul 2020

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Charities to go contactless for Christmas

Software allows charities to collect cashless donations

11 Dec 2019

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Point of donation software service

Enabling the charity sector in a cashless society

11 Dec 2019

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