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Building the standard

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 21 March 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy

...managers and their teams. It also introduced project pages where service managers could record their progress and share their learnings: Guides and toolkits were stored on Github, then synced into...

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Sketching (and some features that didn't quite make it)

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 12 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

We share a few of the early sketches from the alpha.gov.uk project, some of which include features that we either dropped when we realised they would work or haven't got around to implementing yet.

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Accessibility

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 6 May 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, GOV.UK

...context and help make future government sites more accessible for everyone. Photo credit: Paul Downey Richard Pope was Product Owner on the Alpha.gov.uk prototype. You should follow @richardjpope on Twitter...

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A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 April 2011 - Categories: Content design, GOV.UK

...driving test than an HGV one, more people get made redundant than have to make someone redundant, so we should optimise for the common case. The start of any process,...

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