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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.
Service Design
Designing the first service patterns for local government
In this post the Verify team discuss their collaborative work with local councils to design the first service patterns for local government.
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.
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.
We've published the task list pattern
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
We're publishing new patterns looking at the 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 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.
Advice for content designers working on services
Some content designers joining government haven't worked on services before. Here are some tips from Department of Work and Pensions lead content designer Melanie Cannon on what being a content designer on services entails and how to approach it.
Service design: Isn’t it just UX with a different name?
Service design is getting more and more attention in government at the moment, but many people still don’t understand what it is. The most common question I hear – from people both inside and outside government – is: “Isn’t that …