Germany’s approach to digital-ready legislation • Nina Birri & Sarah Strozynski

As part of an International Design in Government community event, Senior Product Manager Sarah Strozynski and Senior Service Designer Nina Birri from the German federal government’s DigitalService shared Germany’s approach to digital-ready legislation. ‘Design for policy’ was the topic of a 3-hour morning gathering of international designers and design-minded public servants on 6 June 2025. The session was hosted by DigitalService des Bundes, the digital unit of Germany’s federal government, in Berlin-Kreuzberg. A Creative Bureaucracy Festival-adjacent gathering of policy designers from around the world co-organised by the EU Policy Lab, the German government’s DigitalService, and the UK’s Cabinet Office.