The importance of content designers in government
The content designer community gathered for ConCon7 last month. Find out what was on the agenda and why it was the most inspiring cross-government conference yet.
Content design
You can find more information about content design as a profession in the Digital, Data and Technology Capability Framework.
How we write guidance for the Service Manual
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Joe Harrison and Louise Miller - Senior content designer, GDS, Posted on:
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Content design, Ways of working
The way government thinks about services is changing and so is the way we write guidance for the Service Manual. Here’s what we’ve done so far on our new guidance model and what’s coming up next.
Getting started as a content designer in a product or service team
A GDS content designer shares some tips on how content designers can work effectively as part of a product or service team.
Building end-to-end services into GOV.UK
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Kate Ivey-Williams and Sam Dub - GOV.UK senior product manager, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK, Transformation
Doing complex tasks like ‘starting a business’ or ‘learning to drive’ means users have to find lots of different pieces of content and interact with government lots of times. We’ve been working to take all these bits and pieces and build them into a coherent service journey, which will be displayed on a single page.
ConCon6: Informative. Engaging. Collaborative.
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Laura Billings - Community lead, GDS and John-Paul Dickie, Posted on:
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Content design
ConCon is the cross-government content conference. A biannual learning festival bringing together colleagues from across government to share good practice, tackle shared challenges, and find new ways to collaborate.
Building the GOV.UK Design System
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Alice Noakes and Tim Paul - Head of Interaction Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Content design
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.
Transforming transport content: the journey so far
We want to make it easier for users to find what they need on GOV.UK. So, we partnered with the Department for Transport and its agencies to transform the GOV.UK transport content.
Taking care of business on GOV.UK
People don’t care about our internal processes. They just want to ‘do the thing’ – set up their limited company or register for self-assessment. Here's how we helped them do that.
Finding things: how we’re breaking down the silos on GOV.UK
We worked with the Department for Education and its agencies to make it easier for GOV.UK users to find the content they need. The results of this work are now starting to become visible to users.
Clear writing training helps the whole organisation
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Karen Manser and Nick Johnstone-Waddell, Posted on:
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Content design, People and skills
How GDS worked with Public Health England to train their staff in writing effectively.
Related content and links
How accessible is your website?
Public sector organisations have a legal duty to make websites accessible. Find out how your organisation is impacted at GOV.UK/accessibility-regulations
GOV.UK service and product owners need to upload an accessibility page and publishers need to upload an accessible documents policy.