Blurring boundaries
Hello, I'm Paul, also known as @psd and I've just joined GDS as a Technical Architect. First impressions are important but soon forgotten, so here are some of mine from the first day of working with the team.
Content design
You can find more information about content design as a profession in the Digital, Data and Technology Capability Framework.
Smart answers are smart
Inherent to the content strategy of the citizen beta of GOV.UK is hiding complexity and building tools before writing content. Much of the detail of government policy is difficult for normal folk to grasp and understand - and the proposition of …
Creating videos for GOV.UK
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Graham Higgins - former Senior Digital Media Producer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...the text, or just find it too scary? Are we going to lose them? Can we give them more choice in how they want to get this information? That thing...
Writing simply: language choices for the GOV.UK navigation
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Russell Davies - former Director of Digital Strategy, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...than getting the site to work properly and to the practical UX work of getting people to the content they need, but we thought you might be interested in some...
What does "Google is the homepage" mean in real life?
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK, Transformation
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 …
Browsers we support and why
Our goal is to make GOV.UK the best designed, most accessible Government website to date. To realise this aim we maintain a relentless focus on user need, therefore what browser...
Ben Terrett on designing GOV.UK
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...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...
Quantitative testing Betagov content and layout
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Nick Breeze - Lead User Researcher, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, Data, GOV.UK
I am Nick Breeze, one of the Senior Insight Managers at GDS and I work in the team responsible for testing content being developed for gov.uk. Recently we completed quantitative usability testing to compare the performance of content and layout …
It's all about the words
When people talk about web design they sometimes take good editorial work for granted. We've already talked about how we are identifying user needs and content titles for gov.uk but...
A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk
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Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...find the quick do and put tools before content so people don't have to wade through pages of text to find the right link to register for this or that...
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