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.
We’ve updated the GOV.UK colours and font
We've updated the colour palette on GOV.UK, as well as the way the GDS Transport font is served. Here's more about those changes.
Become a service designer in government: step by step
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Sūryanāga Poyzer – former senior service designer, GDS & Homes England, Posted on:
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Community, Service Design
Service design is a rapidly growing and much needed field in government. In this post, Sanjay Poyzer describes how he became a service designer and shares some steps you could take to become a service designer in government.
International Design in Government events this summer
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Kara Kane - Head of Profession for Design, GDS and Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Community, Design, International
After running the first ever International Design in Government Conference in London last summer, we asked our community who would like to bring it to their country. In this post, we share where designers in government will get to gather next.
How a cross-government design crit day helps your work
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Jeremy Yun – Senior interaction designer, GDS and Clara Greo – former Lead Designer, GDS, Posted on:
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Community, Design
The User-Centred Design Community runs design crit days to let designers share their work and receive feedback on early prototypes. Find out what happens on the day and how it helps, from previous attendees.
Setting cross-government design community objectives
The Cross-Government Design Community exists to build the practice of design in government and to help designers work together and support each other. The community has grown significantly in size over the past few years. There are currently 1,176 people …
Making it easier to talk about difficult things
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Matthew Solle - Head of Design, MoJ Digital and Technology, Posted on:
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Service Design
Our latest cross-government design meetup focused on how we design products and services for vulnerable people. We discovered shared challenges, as well as inspiration for how to design better services while working with sensitivity.
International Design in Government events are going global
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Kara Kane - Head of Profession for Design, GDS and Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Design, International, Service Design
After the success of our London conference last year, we’re helping to run 3 events around the world to help bring more designers together to build better government services. Find out where we’re going to be and how you can take part.
How the GOV.UK Design System can work alongside other government design resources
We carried out research to look at how the GOV.UK Design System can work with other design resources across government. Here's what we found out.
Design profiles: DWP Digital
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GDS team, Posted on:
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Community, Design, Design profiles, Service Design, User Research
In this profile piece we talk to 3 designers at DWP Digital about their roles and why they came to work in government.
Researching how we ask users about their ethnicity
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Frankie Roberto – Interaction designer, Department for Education, Posted on:
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Design, User Research
Government services ask users about their ethnicity in many different ways. See what the Race Disparity Unit has discovered so far and how you can help us design a more consistent way of getting this information.
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