GDS this week: "It's not dumbing down, it's opening up"
...is really important because people don't want to interact with us as a hobby, they have to interact with government or with agencies for some reason or another so we...
Security, clarity and the style guide
...be re-used for policy work. In other words, the principles matched our own aspirations for security policy. We organised a workshop to look at how we could improve things and...
Pencils
A couple of weeks ago the content team at GOV.UK won a black pencil at the D&AD awards. Alongside the Design of the Year award it’s been a lovely way...
Empowering everyday readers
...common practice in highly navigable web sites but some are less intuitive for writers and designers. Style features that support reading from the web include: repetition of company (or department)...
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