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
...type of content. So please feel free to tell us what you think. Links to the videos: https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/overview https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-identity-check/overview https://www.gov.uk/your-right-to-minimum-wage/overview Graham Higgins (@grahamhi) is a Digital Content Producer for GDS...
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
...of the little language decisions we’ve made around the edges of the site. Our first decision was to distinguish between the language of the core editorial content of the site...
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
...per the Government’s own guidelines. Not all browsers will render web pages in the same way, often there is a marked difference between browsers in the way that they handle...
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
...knew something had to be done. Kinnear and Calvert proposed one consistent system. One designed with the clarity of information as it's goal. From then on Britain had a solution...
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
...that's what we want our users to do - but there is only one way to find out what works: test it. Sarah Richards is one of the lead content...
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
...driving test than an HGV one, more people get made redundant than have to make someone redundant, so we should optimise for the common case. The start of any process,...
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