How to (and why) print all the things
On Wednesday we printed all the start pages on GOV.UK onto a big sheet of paper so we could get a better look at them. It turned out to be really useful, so I thought I’d write about why and how …
Tim Paul
Head of Interaction Design for GOV.UK
One thing per page
Yesterday we updated our guidance on how to design form content for services on GOV.UK. In the previous version we’d discussed the relative merits of three approaches: one question per page all questions on a single page single page, but previous questions are collapsed …
Designing for new and regular users at the same time
At the Rural Payments Agency, we’ve been thinking about how to design services that work well for both new and regular users. The users of the Rural Payments service fall into 2 broad groups: Farmers use the service each year …
How to use the GOV.UK headers and footers
Yesterday we updated our guidance on using the GOV.UK headers and footers. There are teams all over the UK developing services for the government. We're often asked by those teams whether or not their services should look like GOV.UK, what should go in …
New guides - GOV.UK elements and design patterns
Yesterday we published some new design guides in the Government Service Design Manual. GOV.UK elements There's a new guide to styling and coding the basic page elements, with sections on layout, colour, typography, forms, buttons, data, images and icons. This …
Two new design guides
At the start of this year a few of us started working on two new guides for the Government Service Design Manual. They're aimed at designers, researchers and front-end developers who are building services for GOV.UK. Design style guide The …
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