...government. May the profession expand across government - we certainly need it!" "One of my biggest takeaways from today was the experience of trying to complete a questionnaire whilst wearing...
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.
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 …
...make pages (and how they are used) more memorable. In short, we've gone from doing what we thought was the right thing to do, to testing how real people use...
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 …
...Online reading patterns tend to be less linear and sequential than reading from paper. So writing for the web can be adjusted to support non-linear behaviour. Some adjustments are already...
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 …
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
...code is on GitHub. Although we made this for the exhibition we’re already thinking of other ways we could use it, given that it’s web-based. It could be a great...
...to help build services that meet the standard. What good looks like The standard will be applied to all large services from April 2014. The point of the standard is...
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