GOV.UK
GDS goes back to school
Last month, Ed Horsford and I gave a talk at Weston Park Primary School in north London on how we design government services to work for people with access needs. Both of us are design leads at the Government Digital …
Stephen McCarthy
Design Lead for Government as a Platform
When design should get in the way
At GDS we design based on user needs and always try to keep things as simple as possible for the user. We often say that design shouldn’t interfere with the user journey – except for when the user needs it …
Tips for creating good typography
In my last post I mentioned some of the core tools a graphic designer uses when designing government services. This post will go into more detail about typography – probably the most utilised of those tools. The typeface we use for …
Graphic design for government services
I recently gave a graphic design workshop as part of a wider 3 day course given to cross-government designers. The designers on the course found it helpful so I have decided to write a series of blog posts based on …