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We ran a day for students interested in design in the public sector
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Harry Trimble and Kara Kane - Head of Profession for Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Design
Earlier this year we ran a day for students interested in design in the public sector. This blog post looks at what we did and what the students thought about it.
Designing new navigation elements for GOV.UK
We've been working to make GOV.UK easier for users to navigate. Alex Torrance talks about some of the design elements we're introducing as part of this.
We’re building an autocomplete
We're building an autocomplete – we've started by building one for users to provide country and territory information. Here's why we're developing it and what we've done so far.
Things to consider when designing in alpha
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Chris Ballantine-Thomas – Senior interaction designer, GDS, Posted on:
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Design, Tried & tested
Chris Thomas, designer on the Cross-Government Service Data team, writes about some of the things he learned about designing during an alpha.
We've published the task list pattern
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Harry Trimble and Rob Le Quesne, Posted on:
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Design, Service Design, Service Patterns
This is the third in our series of blog posts about new patterns looking at the 'tasks' or elements of a service. This post looks in detail at the task list pattern.
We've published the check before you start pattern
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Harry Trimble and Rob Le Quesne, Posted on:
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Design, Service Design, Service Patterns
We're publishing new patterns looking at the ‘tasks’ or elements of a service. This blog post is about our new ‘check before you start' pattern.
Naming your service: a new approach to patterns
We're publishing new patterns looking at the ‘tasks’ or elements of a service, rather than trying to create patterns for the service or license as a whole. This blog post is about our new ‘naming your service’ pattern.
Doing the hard work to make things open
Paul Smith, a frontend developer at DWP, writes about why it's so important to make our work open and how we can all help make this happen.
Steps to building a design culture
At our most recent cross-government design meeting, we looked at how to build a design culture in organisations. Here are some of the themes we discussed.
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