How can we test our designs with Welsh-speaking users?
How can we test our designs with Welsh-speaking users?
How to add a Welsh language toggle to your prototypes so you can better test with Welsh users.
Bank holidays page iteration
Desktop thoughts Use GOV.UK brand colour to highlight information. Preserve green for success outcomes of services. Remove related links that dominate page as before. Only two links, now quieter but still prominent. They are of secondary importance, so experimenting with …
Two new design guides
At the start of this year a few of us started working on two new guides for the Government Service Design Manual. They're aimed at designers, researchers and front-end developers who are building services for GOV.UK. Design style guide The …
FCO — Foreign travel Advice
Some recent work on rethinking the travel advice pages. Hoping to work these into some user testing in the coming week/s. One of the bigger questions is around mapping. FCO use cartographers who manually draw the maps and affected regions …
Rethinking related links
I’m helping to redesign the foreign travel advice content on GOV.UK. When it moved over from the Foreign Commonwealth Office we used a format we already had. Over time we’ve realised this format doesn’t perform as well as it should, …
Why and how we’re explaining ‘beta’ to users
Going through the stages of discovery, alpha, beta and live is how government should do things. Beta means that the service is not completely finished but it will still do everything it’s designed to do and must follow the same …
Start pages within guides
Guy and I have been working with the carer’s allowance team to test the start page as part of a guide to improve the user journey and try to encourage more users to apply online. In a lot of cases …
Asking for a date of birth
You can read the latest guidance on this subject in the Service Manual. On the Register to vote project, we have been testing different ways of asking for a date of birth. We began with three drop-downs: This tested ok, …
Start page discovery — update
This is just a short update on the state of play of the start page discovery since our previous post. In short, there's been little significant movement as we are still waiting to be able to test the work we've …
We’ve changed the name
‘Reckons’ is a word we use a lot inside GDS to describe part of our design process. It means making informed guesses - ideas and sketches we think might be right, but often haven’t tested. Once we hit publish on …
Unstyled links on browse
What are we trying? In almost any other circumstance on GOV.UK we would expect an anchor link to be coloured blue, and underlined, set in bold (or both) depending on typesetting context and user need. But on the Business and …
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