We recently launched 'register to vote' on GOV.UK. It's a service that will be used by a broad range of people, so we really tried to make it as simple and straightforward as possible. Here are a few things we …
In our Design Principles number nine is 'be consistent, not uniform'. The principles were never meant to be strict brand guidelines, as we said at the time, "We can’t imagine every scenario and write rules for it." Two years in, …
This is a picture of designers working at DVLA, MoJ, HMRC, GDS and HO meeting up at the Home Office last week to share design patterns. This is something we do regularly as a design community. As we transform more …
This is apparently a slide from a Google engineer highlighting their focus on the user. I don't know who the quote is from but it was tweeted by Paul Frampton the other day. It reminded me of our fourth design principle, …
When designing a new service, a product or just a simple page it is often best to start with a sketch. Or a scribble. Something you can quickly put down on paper to help you visualise how things might work and …
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