I'm leaving GDS this week so I wanted to let you know that Louise Downe will be leading the digital design community in GDS and across government. Many of you will know Louise already as for the last year and a half …
GOV.UK Verify is the new way to prove who you are online, so you can use services on GOV.UK safely, and securely. It lets people safely sign in and use government services using a certified company.
In my last post I mentioned some of the core tools a graphic designer uses when designing government services. This post will go into more detail about typography – probably the most utilised of those tools. The typeface we use for …
GOV.UK frontend styles include loads of small, elegant details that make them worth including in your service – even if it looks nothing like GOV.UK. I even use them in my personal website.
I recently gave a graphic design workshop as part of a wider 3 day course given to cross-government designers. The designers on the course found it helpful so I have decided to write a series of blog posts based on …
If you’re designing a service and one of the design patterns in the Service Manual isn’t working, you can change it! Here’s how: Get your user research findings together Tell us about your findings on the Design Patterns Hackpad Make …
Yesterday we updated our guidance on how to design form content for services on GOV.UK. In the previous version we’d discussed the relative merits of three approaches: one question per page all questions on a single page single page, but previous questions are collapsed …
To a user, a service is simple. It’s something that helps them to do something - like learn to drive, buy a house, or become a childminder. It’s an activity that needs to be done. A verb that comes naturally …
Yes. This is a question I get asked a lot by design students - should I learn to code? The answer is yes. Why wouldn't you? But there's nuance: you don't need to be a Ruby dev. Learning to code …
At the Government Digital Service, we do a lot of prototyping of our ideas. This is to discuss ideas more clearly amongst the team, and to test the ideas with real people. Here are some thoughts on prototyping from people …
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