What's next for design in government
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...
Ben Terrett
Should I learn to code?
...a webpage. If I bump into a student carrying a portfolio of chalk drawings and they ask, should I learn to code, I'll reply yes. If nothing else they will...
Spotted: clever and useful design patterns
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 …
Interaction Designer job in Birmingham
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...
We’re thinking about updating the design principles
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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 …
Service design in Swansea
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 …
Being consistent, not uniform
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, …
We need interaction designers to help transform digital services
...do regularly as a design community. As we transform more digital services we need more interaction designers. People with experience of designing easy to use services. Some of these jobs...
Do the hard work to make it simple
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, …
10 questions to ask when reviewing design work
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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