Recapping the International Design in Government Community activities this year from a conference in Amsterdam to getting together in Berlin. And sharing what is planned for the community in 2026.
...for updates. Here’s what will be happening: 2 days, 3 keynotes, 32 organisations The conference will take place over Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 July across a series of venues...
...organise the curriculum, run sessions and help make the training better. Now we want to build on this hard work and we’re looking for a design trainer to help us...
We're holding a Service Design in Government show and tell on 22 June which is open to everyone. Find out why we're doing it and what we'll be talking about.
Last month, Ed Horsford and I gave a talk at Weston Park Primary School in north London on how we design government services to work for people with access needs. Both of us are design leads at the Government Digital …
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.
...that’s already been done and make elements of their service consistent with other government services. We’ve talked about service patterns before, but for the next iteration we wanted to reach...
At GDS we run design training for people from across government. This training helps people find out how design works in building government services. The courses we offer are open...
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.
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