After the success of the Helsinki Conference we’re preparing our next events for 2025. First off is the User Needs First International Conference in Amsterdam in April.
Many designers in government either began, or have had extensive careers, in the private sector before joining the Civil Service. In this blog post, they share some of the differences they observed.
Over 180 million Covid-19 rapid lateral flow tests have been offered to the public. Senior content designer Ben Clancy explains how they made the tests’ printed instructions easy to understand.
The Department for Education has contributed a new checkbox to the GOV.UK Design System that lets users explicitly tell us none of the other options apply.
We reviewed the work of designers and design-minded professionals across the UK government and identified 5 main areas where they are addressing climate change.
Content designer John Newton explains how to develop, prototype and test easy read guidance for users with lower literacy levels and cognitive disabilities.
...government services. For the first time, we were seeking to influence operations teams and case workers that run services. Now, we’re extending our ambitions even further by bringing the spirit...
We are making some visual improvements to links on GOV.UK to make them more accessible and easier to read.
In Cabinet Office, we are looking for designers to join us and work on services that matter and are genuinely user-centred.
...- a monthly case study event “Discuss a design challenge” - a monthly talk and discussion “User Research Mondays” - a monthly case study or methods and tools sharing session...
...Feedback sessions are designed to help people who work on service design, interaction design, graphic design, content design and tech writing work to get feedback from colleagues across government and...
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