How and why heads of design across government came together to update the design skills in the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
Good design is a crucial part of building good public services. Good design affects many things -- it’s about more than just typefaces on a website. We have many tools to help us design good services. We have design principles, …
Although the vast majority of our time here is spent designing public services and digital platforms, occasionally we do something a bit more traditional like an identity project. Yesterday GDS held its fourth Sprint conference, Sprint16. We designed an animated …
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, …
The GOV.UK prototype kit is the tool we use for rapidly creating HTML prototypes for GOV.UK services. Today we released version 2.0.0 of the kit It’s got numerous improvements over version 1, but most significantly we’ve switched the templating language …
In November Stephen, Rebecca, Henry and I spent a day and a half with design students at Middlesex University. Why we got involved The Product Design course was having its ‘5 year revalidation’. This was a week-long discovery where the …
In a few of our recent research sessions, we saw users get to the end of the service and bookmark the confirmation page. We asked them why they did this - generally it was so they could return later and check …
Last week I went to Manchester for the last two sessions of Design Manchester festival. From the two sessions I attended (out of a whole week’s programme) it was clear that being agile and open with your design process produces …
We’re looking for talented service designers to work on services that matter across government. You won't just be designing the digital bit. Your job will be to fundamentally reimagine the way that public services work from the ground up. Working …
Before joining GDS three months ago, I was studying service design at the Royal College of Art and doing service design in the National Problem Gambling Clinic: the only NHS service for people affected by gambling addiction. Working at the …
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