Pencils
A couple of weeks ago the content team at GOV.UK won a black pencil at the D&AD awards. Alongside the Design of the Year award it’s been a lovely way...
Content design
You can find more information about content design as a profession in the Digital, Data and Technology Capability Framework.
How to cover rolling news events
From time to time, a news event can trigger a high volume of response from the government. It may involve information coming from a number of different departments, for example, or need frequent updates as a situation unfolds. The challenge …
Widgets, badges and blog bling. What stuff can I embed on GOV.UK?
One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is "Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?" In the spirit of "publish, don't send" this blog post sets out …
Introducing the Content Explorer
...and content designers The Content Explorer helps our product managers and content designers as they identify, prioritise, and evaluate content. “It’s going to allow us to see quickly and in...
Rewriting policy plainly
...finished products - they were the first of many iterations. We've had to learn to approach projects in a more agile way. It hasn't always been easy, but it has...
Explaining government policy on GOV.UK
As departments move from publishing on separate websites to publishing on GOV.UK, each of them will be contributing to a comprehensive set of web pages that explain government policies clearly, consistently, and all in one place. Doing this is difficult, …
Designing for the long read on Inside Government
At GDS we intend the web to be the primary platform for publishing things like policy, speeches and detailed guidance, with any print documents taking a supporting role. As a consequence legibility online becomes hugely important, because the reader will …
Have I got government news for you?
Posted by:
Ross Ferguson - former Deputy Director for Portfolio Delivery on GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...were asked how many government websites they visited for news. Just under half (49%) said they visited between 1 - 5 sites, 35% said they only ever visited one, while...
The right words for the job
Hens and chickens, or breeders and meat? Part of a GDS content designer's role is to choose the best words to explain what a web page is trying to say. It's got to be easy to understand, simple to find …
From user needs to content - what’s the story?
We’ve already written about how we’ve worked to identify user needs for GOV.UK, so now I’d like to explain a bit more about what happens next - how does a need become published content or a tool on the site?
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