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Moving on from GDS

Posted by: Paul Annett, Posted on: 5 June 2013 - Categories: GDS team

I've been Creative Lead on the design team at GDS for the last two years, and I'm really thrilled about my next step. On Monday I'm joining the design team at Twitter. I've been asked to write a blog post …

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What was the evidence? Users’ information needs and analytics

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 23 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, User research

We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.

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It's all about the nodes and what lives at them

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 16 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

To say that no-one wants to visit a government website is an over-simplification. But it's certainly true that the compulsion is significantly different from what drives people to a destination website like BBC News or Facebook, or from something customer-facing …

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Broadly, the visual language of Alpha.gov.uk

Posted by: Paul Annett, Posted on: 11 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

Read about the colour and typography used for Alpha.gov.uk which is a demonstration of what a single central Government site could be.

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