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Designing for new and regular users at the same time

Posted by: Tim Paul, Posted on: 8 October 2014 - Categories: Likely to change

At the Rural Payments Agency, we’ve been thinking about how to design services that work well for both new and regular users. The users of the Rural Payments service fall into 2 broad groups: Farmers use the service each year …

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The design of government emails

Posted by: Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 4 September 2014 - Categories: Experimental

We are starting to look at the design of emails that the government sends to users and what should be standardised in the service manual. It would be good to get feedback from service managers and designers about what would …

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Doing the hard work to make it simple

Posted by: Henry Charge, Posted on: 7 August 2014 - Categories: Experimental

...difficult is where they input the details of their previous jobs. In particular, the start and end dates of those jobs. The majority of our users have just left school...

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Two new design guides

Posted by: Tim Paul, Posted on: 18 February 2014 - Categories: Experimental, Likely to change

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 …

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