Four years as a content designer in local government
Four years as a content designer in local government
Hard-won content lessons from local government. Changing the world, one resident interaction at a time.
Design in Government: Ministry of Justice Digital
As part of our ongoing Design in Government profile series, we hear from 3 designers of the Ministry of Justice Digital team about how they work, what they do, and what it means to them.
How to create a portfolio to apply for a design role in government
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Charlotte Downs – Designer, GDS and Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Community, Design, Equity
What should a portfolio look like when applying for a design role in government? Whatever your experience level, in this post you’ll find advice on how to shape a good portfolio, what is expected of you and why having and updating a portfolio is important.
Designing the GOV.UK coronavirus page
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Kate Ivey-Williams – Head of Design, GDS, Mia Allers – Senior designer, GDS and Sam Dub – Senior product manager, GDS, Posted on:
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Design, Likely to change
The GOV.UK coronavirus page went from concept to publication in 4.5 days. Since going live, it has helped millions of people find important COVID-19 information. Read the blog post to find out how we designed gov.uk/coronavirus.
How designers across government are working remotely
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Kara Kane - Senior Service Designer, GDS and Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Community, Design
Designers in government have adapted to the new circumstances, altered their ways of working and adopted new tools. For this blog post, we reached out to various service designers from different government organisations to hear how they are working under the changed environment.
What we are doing to increase equity in the GDS design team
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Clara Greo – former Lead Designer, GDS and Harry Vos – Senior product manager, GDS, Posted on:
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Community, Equity
The GDS design team is not equitable enough. This means some people face more barriers than others in the workplace because of their characteristics or the groups they are a part of. We want to do better. In this blog post, we are sharing what we are doing to increase equity in the team.
What a demographics survey told us about the diversity of our design team
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Clara Greo – former Lead Designer, GDS and Stephen McCarthy, Posted on:
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Community, Equity
The GDS design team aims to reflect the diversity of the society it serves. We conducted a demographics survey to see how well the design team represents the population of London before taking the next steps of improving the equity of the team.
What it’s like to run a gov design jam
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Afsa Akbar – Service designer, NHS Digital, Imran Hussain – Communities of Practice Lead, Defra Digital and Jacinta Mellenger – Senior service designer, Department for Education, Posted on:
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Design, Experimental
End of October, public servants from multiple government organisations co-organised Gov Jams in Blackpool, Leeds and London. The hackathon-like events were part of a global event series that took place in 26 cities internationally. In this blog post, 3 organisers share how it worked, what it was like, and how to get involved.
Making our admin tools more consistent
At the Government Digital Service, we run common platforms to help government build and deliver better and more user-focused services. In this post, Stephen McCarthy shares how we make the admin tools behind GOV.UK Notify and Pay easy to use.
User-centred design in local government: where it’s at
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Kara Kane - Senior Service Designer, GDS and Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Community, Design
Many local councils all across the UK are increasing their design, user research, and content design capability. Designers and design-minded people are improving the public services provided by Local Authorities. We are running a Local #govdesign Day to bring these people together and showcase their work.
New Design Principles posters
We first published the Government Design Principles in 2012. They have influenced the work of design-minded people all across government. Now, we have made new posters to illustrate the principles.