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Designing services for people who’ve lost trust online

Designing services for people who’ve lost trust online

Rachel Malic, content designer at HMRC shares how to design to rebuild trust in using public services for people who have been affected by scams.

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Sign up to the next design in the public sector career day

Posted by: Kara Kane – Head of Design for Test, Learn and Grow, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 14 August 2017 - Categories: Design
Students at the last Public Sector Student Design Day

...of prototyping: paper prototyping, acting, or any other ways people come up with. Prototypes for different types of users The attendees showed interest in accessibility, so this time we will...

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We're hiring Interaction Designers

Posted by: Tim Paul, Posted on: 25 July 2017 - Categories: Uncategorized
Image of some paper prototypes

We’re looking for talented interaction designers to help us transform government services. You’ll get to design some of the most important services in the country and your work will be used by millions. We’re developing a platform for the rest of government, …

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We ran a day for students interested in design in the public sector

Posted by: Harry Trimble and Kara Kane – Head of Design for Test, Learn and Grow, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 4 July 2017 - Categories: Design
Students at the Student Design Day

Earlier this year we ran a day for students interested in design in the public sector. This blog post looks at what we did and what the students thought about it.

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Designing new navigation elements for GOV.UK

Posted by: Alex Torrance, Posted on: 29 June 2017 - Categories: Design

We've been working to make GOV.UK easier for users to navigate. Alex Torrance talks about some of the design elements we're introducing as part of this.

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We’re building an autocomplete

Posted by: Ed Horsford, Posted on: 20 April 2017 - Categories: Design, Frontend, Service Design
A screenshot of the new country and territory picker

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.

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Things to consider when designing in alpha

Posted by: Chris Ballantine-Thomas – Senior interaction designer, GDS, Posted on: 7 April 2017 - Categories: Design, Tried & tested
A sketch showing Cross-Government Service Data prototype iterations

Chris Thomas, designer on the Cross-Government Service Data team, writes about some of the things he learned about designing during an alpha.

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We've published the task list pattern

Posted by: Harry Trimble and Rob Le Quesne, Posted on: 4 April 2017 - Categories: Design, Service Design, Service Patterns
Task list post

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.

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We've published the check before you start pattern

Posted by: Harry Trimble and Rob Le Quesne, Posted on: 30 March 2017 - Categories: Design, Service Design, Service Patterns
The check before you start pattern in use

We're publishing new patterns looking at the ‘tasks’ or elements of a service. This blog post is about our new ‘check before you start' pattern.

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Naming your service: a new approach to patterns

Posted by: Harry Trimble, Posted on: 27 March 2017 - Categories: Design, Service Design, Service Patterns
A screenshot showing the naming your service pattern in use

We're publishing new patterns looking at 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.

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Doing the hard work to make things open

Posted by: Paul Smith, Posted on: 24 March 2017 - Categories: Design, Frontend
Make things open, it makes things better stickers

Paul Smith, a frontend developer at DWP, writes about why it's so important to make our work open and how we can all help make this happen.

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