What's next for design in government
...has led the way in defining, in the open, what it means for government and the wider design industry. Her blog post 'Good services are verbs, bad services are nouns'...
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
...rather than giving you a binary answer and effectively making the decision for you. In a small way it's empowering. It reminded me of this pattern from Google. Search for...
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
...the other day. It reminded me of our fourth design principle, do the hard work to make it simple. The second sentence, "If they don't know how to form the...
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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