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.
Design
Steps to building a design culture
...build design culture in their teams and departments. Things like show and tells, retrospectives, meetups and even team lunches and outings. Other practices include shared language and collective actions such...
Some design tips for uploading things
We've collected examples from around government of services that require users to upload something.
Building an international group of government designers
We're planning to set up an international government design group, bringing together practitioners to talk about our work, share best practice and discuss some of the common issues we face.
We're hosting a public sector design student day
On 9 March, GDS will host a day for students interested in finding out more about design in the public sector.
Looking at design systems across government
We held a show and tell in Leeds to look at the different design systems around government and to talk about how to move to a more collaborative way of working.
We’ve updated the alpha and beta phase banners
We recently updated the colours used by the alpha and beta phase banners on GOV.UK. The primary reason we made the change is for accessibility.
We've updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK
Last week we updated the styles for radio buttons and checkboxes on GOV.UK. This post explains why we’ve done this. Our old radios and checkboxes looked like this: The new ones look like this: We’ve removed the grey boxes and …
Removing the external link icon from GOV.UK
We recently removed the external link icon from GOV.UK. That’s the icon that looks like this: Here it is on a page on GOV.UK: We’d assumed that there was a clear need for the external link icon, but in 4 …
We've improved the accessibility of code examples
Last week we carried out some work on the GOV.UK code syntax highlighting to make it more accessible. We updated the colours used in code examples on GOV.UK to make them more legible. The previous colours used a default colour scheme …
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