After the success of the Helsinki Conference we’re preparing our next events for 2025. First off is the User Needs First International Conference in Amsterdam in April.
Last year Ed Horsford made a copy of the entire Service Manual for some user research. In this blog post he looks at to use the Wget command line utility to create copies of large amounts of content.
Design patterns are reusable solutions for common problems. In government at the moment there are a number of interaction and content design patterns that are used by service teams across...
...for hypothesis-driven design’ and ‘decide which design pattern applies in a given situation’. We wanted focused objectives, rather than things like ‘understand what research is’ or ‘be aware of accessibility’....
The Design System team at GDS have updated how typography and spacing is defined in GOV.UK Frontend, the new frontend codebase which will replace Frontend toolkit and GOV.UK Elements. Here’s exactly what they did.
...GDPR, the EU web accessibility directive, EU Digital Single Gateway regulation, service transformation and design capability building. The conference will also help to meet the Government Transformation Strategy priority to...
We talk to 3 members of the HMRC Digital team about how design works in the department, what brought them to government and the rewards of designing for user needs.
A the start of the year we set up an international design in government community. The community now has more than 250 members from 37 countries. Here's what we've been talking about and how you can take part.
...to 4 integrated service groups. Drummond spoke about how Snook works on building service design capability in organisations. As a consultancy, its role is to show what good service design...
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.
Design crits are a way to get constructive feedback on works in progress. In this blog post we look at how crits can help designers and teams and offer some advice on running them.
Sign up to get updates direct to your inbox and stay informed about improvements to digital products and services in government.