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...
View ArticleWe’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...
View ArticleDeveloping 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View Article10 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGDS 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...
View ArticleWe'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...
View ArticleCome 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...
View ArticleInternational 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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