Design in: the Parliamentary Digital Service
We talk to 3 members of the Parliamentary Digital Service about what led them to their roles, the unique challenges they face, and why collaboration is a fundamental part of their work.
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Using design crits to improve collaboration
Design crits are a way to get constructive feedback on works in progress. In this blog post we look at how crits can help designers and teams and offer some advice on running them.
Design in Government: The Environment Agency
Our new Design in Government series profiles design teams across departments. For this post we talk to designers at the Environment Agency about how they work and what they do.
GDS at the London Design Festival
GDS is running a series of events for the London Design Festival in September, including a Cross-Government Design Meetup at the Design Museum, which will be open to the public and free to attend.
Sign up to the next design in the public sector career day
...of prototyping: paper prototyping, acting, or any other ways people come up with. Prototypes for different types of users The attendees showed interest in accessibility, so this time we will...
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.
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