You can find more information about content design as a profession in the Digital, Data and Technology Capability Framework.
As GOV.UK marks its sixth birthday, we look at how step by step navigation on the site is making things better for users.
We're not huge fans of PDFs on GOV.UK. We hope this post will help publishers explain to colleagues the problems with using them and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.
...and improving content: old technology, legacy content and the lack of a system capturing changes to offline content such as letters. Changes can also be hard and expensive to make....
"Content designers translate difficult concepts into easy to understand content." "We help people get the information they need, in the way they need it." "Without content designers, government would be...
...a range of different things from our guidance depending on their level of experience. People newer to government services or agile ways of working need: ways to get up to...
...learn prototyping and other design skills at GDS; signing up to the service designers mailing list is a good place to start. If you have any tips for content designers...
...build a service journey on GOV.UK. Driving change on the driving page To pilot this work, we looked at some services that we knew a lot about and that we...
...the agenda included: using agile teams to test policy options, from Ministry of Justice (MoJ) product management tactics for content designers, from GDS and Home Office problem-solving with design sprints,...
We’ve been developing a new design system for government services. GOV.UK Design System will contain all the styles, components and design patterns that teams in government need to create user-centred digital services.
...the content (excluding some formats – news, for example – that we wouldn’t want to change retrospectively). Improve the content (where necessary). Tag the content to the new taxonomy and...
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