Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS

Updating the GOV.UK homepage

Sam Dub, Product Lead on GOV.UK, GDS, Owen Jones, Frontend Developer at GDS and Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, 13 December 2021 - Accessibility, Finding things, How we work, Product changes

We’ve made design changes to the GOV.UK homepage to improve its accessibility and make it a better user experience for the millions of people that visit it every week.

Launching GOV.UK’s new menu bar

Sam Dub, Product Lead on GOV.UK, GDS, Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS and Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, 11 November 2021 - Product changes, What we're working on

Learn why and how we updated the GOV.UK sitewide menu bar.

How we made the GOV.UK accordion component more accessible

Chris Yoong, Frontend Developer at GDS, Nikin Nagewadia, Senior Interaction Designer, GOV.UK, Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS and Owen Jones, Frontend Developer at GDS, 29 October 2021 - Accessibility

We updated an accordion component to be more accessible and here’s how we did it.

Tackling design debt on GOV.UK

Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, 7 March 2019 - Finding things, Product changes

GOV.UK is a large and complex website that uses a range of different layouts and design elements. We've been improving the site's user experience by tackling design debt and building a universal navigation system.

Using topic pages to organise content on GOV.UK

Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, 1 November 2018 - Content, Finding things, Product changes

Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.

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