The importance of content designers in government
The content designer community gathered for ConCon7 last month. Find out what was on the agenda and why it was the most inspiring cross-government conference yet.
Taking service design to Parliament
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GDS team, Service design
We spoke recently at a roundtable in Parliament, organised by the All Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation (APDIG). At the session, ‘Designing the next generation of government services’, we talked about why GDS is making service design a priority.
Talking accessibility at ustwo
Back in May of this year I tweeted about how impressed I was that London-based agency ustwo had released an update to their "Pixel Perfect Precision" handbook, which included a new section on accessibility. The handbook, written so that new …
Retiring our icons
One of the first pieces of work I did at GDS last year was to create icons for different types of content on GOV.UK. The icons (appearing as they did in various different guises) have been a part of the site since the …
How we've been improving site search on GOV.UK
In the past few weeks, a small team in the Government Digital Service has been working to make significant improvements to site search on GOV.UK. When GOV.UK came out of beta in October 2012, replacing the Directgov and Business Link …
Empowering everyday readers
Recently, we asked the Centre for Information Design Research (CIDR) at the University of Reading to review the GOV.UK Style Guide to ensure it meets the needs of users online. They’ve completed their review, and we asked them to write …
Design that Makes a Difference exhibition
Last Friday Rebecca Kemp, Joshua Marshall and I visited the opening of the ‘Design that Makes a Difference’ exhibition at the Royal College of Art. Josh is our accessibility lead and Rebecca leads the Assisted Digital programme. Organised as a …
GOV.UK wins Design of the Year 2013
Judges unanimously voted for GOV.UK above other category winners including fashion, furniture and architecture, for its "well thought out, yet understated design" - Design Museum design of the year award 16 April 2013 #designsoftheyear
Designs of the Year
The Design Museum’s annual ‘Designs of the Year’ awards exhibition launched last week. As usual it’s an eclectic mix of architecture, fashion, digital, furniture, products, transport and graphics. Category winners and the overall winner will be decided by a jury …
Beta testing the Service Standard
We've released a beta version of the Digital by Default Service Standard, a big step towards fulfilling one of the actions established in the Government Digital Strategy last November.
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