Year: 2017

7 Dec-17
Australian Passport Application checklists

Perform has been working with the Australian Passport Office, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as part of the new passport application project, which went live in August 2017. Working closely with project business analysts, digital capture developers, and DFAT’s scanning and other t...Read more

29 Aug-17
Medicinal Cannabis licence forms

In February 2016 legislation was passed to enable the cultivation of cannabis for medicinal and related research purposes in Australia. A detailed regulatory framework was put in place to enable applications for licences and permits for the cultivation, production and manufacture of medicinal cannab...Read more

14 Aug-17
User testing helps improve question sets for Carers

Perform was commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Human Services (DHS) to undertake observation studies of participants completing questions in a Voluntary Field Test for Carers. The aim of the testing was to identify issues with the question sets in the current carer claim forms a...Read more

15 May-17
Creative and Digital Communication Services Panel

Perpetro Pty Limited (trading as Perform Information Design Solutions) is a member of the Department of Human Services' Creative and Digital Communications Panel (SON 2697681) for the provision of forms design services. We were appointed to this panel on 30 October 2014 and were on the two previous ...Read more

8 May-17
The importance of guidelines and standards

Most organisations and agencies have style guides that cover the use of their logo and other graphic elements including reports, business card, stationery design and webpage layout. These are useful documents from a branding perspective, but they generally don't cover specific forms design requirem...Read more

8 May-17
ActewAGL’s new look Electricity and Gas bills

ActewAGL – one of Canberra’s main utility suppliers – engaged Perform’s services back in 2005 to redesign their electricity and water bills with specific focus on the format, presentation and usability of the information. The redesign of the bills was highly successfully. Recently the bil...Read more