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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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