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.
Design
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
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Kara Kane – Head of Design for Test, Learn and Grow, Cabinet Office, Posted on:
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Design
...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.
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