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Design in Government: HMRC Digital

There are currently more than 600 designers across different organisations helping government work better for users. Our Design in Government series profiles the design teams in different...

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We’re planning an International Design in Government conference

A recent UK cross-government design meetup at the Design Museum in London Last year we set up a community of designers working in, for and with governments around the world. Over the past year, the...

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Developing new typography and spacing for GOV.UK Frontend

The Design System team at GDS have updated how typography and spacing is defined in GOV.UK Frontend, the new frontend codebase which will replace Frontend Toolkit and GOV.UK Elements. GOV.UK Frontend...

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Making design training better

At GDS we run design training for people from across government. This training helps people find out how design works in building government services. The courses we offer are open to designers from...

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10 principles for service patterns

Design patterns are reusable solutions for common problems. In government at the moment there are a number of interaction and content design patterns that are used by service teams across departments....

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How I used Wget to make a copy of the Service Manual for user research

Last year I made a complete copy of the Service Manual for some user research. One of my teams was planning some research to test some new content for the Service Manual with users. We wanted the new...

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GDS goes back to school

Last month, Ed Horsford and I gave a talk at Weston Park Primary School in north London on how we design government services to work for people with access needs. Both of us are design leads at the...

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We're holding a show and tell about service design in government

The GOV.UK Design System will be made available on 22 June and to mark this we’re holding the first in a new series of Service Design in Government show and tells. These will be open to anyone to...

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Come and help us run design training across government

At GDS we run design training for people from across government. We do this for designers and non-designers because we believe good design should be at the heart of everything we do. The courses we...

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International Design in Government Conference - what to expect

Over the last 18 months, we’ve built an international community of designers in government. More than 800 people from 50 countries around the world are now members. We run a Slack group, a mailing...

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