Building the standard
At the outset, it wasn't clear that we were making a manual. Our brief was to draw up the thing that all new services will be judged against - the Digital by Default Service Standard, as set out in the …
Sketching (and some features that didn't quite make it)
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Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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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.
Accessibility
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Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, GOV.UK
It is vital that the Government's live web sites are as accessible as possible for everyone. There can be no argument about that - their audience is everyone. With a short, agile, project like Alpha.gov.uk (we've had just over 10 …
A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk
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Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
We share a few design rules we’ve set up for Alpha.gov.uk
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