Richard Pope: Beyond user needs – A new design philosophy for the digital public sector

The audio recording of the keynote of Richard Pope at the User Needs First International Conference 2025. Richard was the closing keynote speaker of the conference. Richard was part of the founding team of the UK Government Digital Service and the first product manager for gov.uk. Richard is the author of Platformland, an anatomy of next generation public services, and a former senior fellow at Harvard. In this keynote, he shares his expertise on transforming public services through human-centered design.