EVL is not evil
...services - amongst them the government’s flagship digital service. EVL Carolyn I started work on digital services in 2003/04 when things were very different in the digital space. Electronic Vehicle...
GOV.UK
Posts about the development and iteration of the GOV.UK website. You can find more information for GOV.UK publishers on the Inside GOV.UK blog.
Iterate. Then iterate again.
After we launched the iteration of GOV.UK two weeks ago we received a lot of feedback via Twitter and email regarding the changes we had made to the visual design of the site. Alex Torrance, User Experience Designer at GDS …
Webfonts in practice
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Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
We started using a new font on GOV.UK last week, and received feedback that it wasn't working in everyones browsers. Creative lead Chris Heathcote details the changes the team has made to make sure the font works well for everyone.
A few notes on typography
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
On Tuesday evening we made another release of changes to GOV.UK. One of the biggest areas of discussion centered around the typography changes. Ben Terrett, Head of Design, explains the...
Introducing a new tool - Licence Finder
...the Licence Finder. I wanted to explain a bit more about how it came into being. What does it do? The Licence Finder solves one of our more straightforward user...
Introducing the next iteration of GOV.UK
As Tom explained back in January, the GOV.UK beta is a work in progress. We've been hard at work behind the scenes since then, and today we're releasing a new batch of content, as well as the next iteration of …
GOV.UK editorial style guide
Today marks the launch of the alpha release of the GOV.UK editorial style guide. Sarah Richards, Content Design Lead on the Delivery team explains why this is important and how...
The speed of change
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Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
When a user sent a tweet about a possible improvement on GOV.UK, it became a great example of how quickly an agile team can respond to feedback. Chris Heathcote from the GDS design team explains how size doesn't necessarily mean …
If content is king, who rules our land?
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Alan Maddrell - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK Pay, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
As Sarah Richards has already said, the citizen beta of GOV.UK is as much about radical simplicity in words as it is about design and back-end innovation. In a few murky corridors, clarity is still considered heresy. Alan Maddrell, Content …
Feedback isn't just for Cobain and Hendrix - what we heard from the Inside government beta
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Ross Ferguson - former Deputy Director for Portfolio Delivery on GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
...mind.' Member of public Department pages on Inside government beta (top) vs current departmental sites The facilitator then pulled up Inside government. The participants began with a cursory browse and...
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