...saying that we don't follow this slavishly. We're flexible and we optimise for meeting user need and for delivery. Consistent not uniform. None of this is revolutionary and it's probably...
Last Friday Rebecca Kemp, Joshua Marshall and I visited the opening of the ‘Design that Makes a Difference’ exhibition at the Royal College of Art. Josh is our accessibility lead and Rebecca leads the Assisted Digital programme. Organised as a …
Judges unanimously voted for GOV.UK above other category winners including fashion, furniture and architecture, for its "well thought out, yet understated design" - Design Museum design of the year award 16 April 2013 #designsoftheyear
...the homepage” mantra and created simple, clear 'landing' pages. Four previous versions of the homepage People often misunderstood this to mean we thought the homepage should look like Google. We...
...start from. We looked around for an extremely legible typeface. Accessibility is key at GDS and ideally we'd like a typeface that's good enough for us not to need an...
...this but we wanted to explain why we have made a particular decision. Pink / experimental - we are trying this out and pushing it live to see how it...
...that we are planning to change but we still want to explain why we made those decisions. We do hope the document will explain the foundations of our design process...
Back in April last year the Alpha.gov.uk team talked about Google being the homepage*: "Since for the vast majority of people their web journeys (finding out the date of the next bank-holiday, or reporting a lost passport) start with a …
...will be valued In many ways the problem is similar to problem Kinnear and Calvert faced when designing the road signs in the 60's. Before they came along Britain was...
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