I'm leaving GDS this week so I wanted to let you know that Louise Downe will be leading the digital design community in GDS and across government. Many of you will know Louise already as for the last year and a half …
Yes. This is a question I get asked a lot by design students - should I learn to code? The answer is yes. Why wouldn't you? But there's nuance: you don't need to be a Ruby dev. Learning to code …
I was looking at the Ikea website at the weekend and noticed this smart design pattern. Many websites tell you whether an item is in stock and many tell you whether a product is available in store. But this tells you …
The Insolvency Service are looking for an interaction designer to help with this and other services. They say, "We are building a multi disciplinary team who will create and run these new and improved digital services. We will be using …
The Design Principles have been in Alpha since April 2012. It’s probably about time they went into Beta. But every time we start doing that we ask ourselves ‘Are the principles right?’ We’re genuinely split on that. Mostly, the design …
I'm in Swansea today, going to observe some user research. Amy, Lou, Kush and others have been working in Swansea with DVLA on a service design project. In this picture Amy is making a few changes to the prototype. Out of shot …
In our Design Principles number nine is 'be consistent, not uniform'. The principles were never meant to be strict brand guidelines, as we said at the time, "We can’t imagine every scenario and write rules for it." Two years in, …
This is a picture of designers working at DVLA, MoJ, HMRC, GDS and HO meeting up at the Home Office last week to share design patterns. This is something we do regularly as a design community. As we transform more …
This is apparently a slide from a Google engineer highlighting their focus on the user. I don't know who the quote is from but it was tweeted by Paul Frampton the other day. It reminded me of our fourth design principle, …
Picture from Jen Pahlka, stickers by us at GDS. The other day Jason Fried wrote a blog post called Questions I ask when reviewing a design. It's a good list. Reviewing design work is never easy. And giving constructive feedback is …
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