We're not huge fans of PDFs on GOV.UK. We hope this post will help publishers explain to colleagues the problems with using them and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.
...and improving content: old technology, legacy content and the lack of a system capturing changes to offline content such as letters. Changes can also be hard and expensive to make....
"Content designers translate difficult concepts into easy to understand content." "We help people get the information they need, in the way they need it." "Without content designers, government would be...
Former GDS staff who now work for foreign governments share what they’ve learnt working abroad, what they’ve contributed and discuss GDS’ impact.
...to DWP Digital delivery is the reduced overhead and time costs of governance and assurance for our digital teams. That enables faster achievement of business outcomes, accelerates digital transformation and...
...culture, practice and technologies to central government can make government work better for users. This has often involved close collaboration with local authorities who share many of the same organisational...
The challenges of building effective services for all and some of the work we're doing to make services as inclusive as possible.
...is something we need to focus on. We need to approach voice services in a consistent and scalable way. So rather than write code for a specific platform, we’re working...
...colours components like checkboxes, buttons and form inputs patterns for common tasks, like asking users for an address or helping them check a service is suitable for them We’ve also...
...the Government Digital Service reflect on the role that digital leaders can have in transformation and the qualities a good digital leader should have. Simon Everest - Service owner, Standards...
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