Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide
Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide
We’ve improved how we work at GOV.UK by creating a new design resource for our teams. Here’s why and how we did it.
The content design meetup in Newcastle - a roundup
What happens when you get 40 content designers in a room? We tested this theory at the content design meetup in Newcastle on Tuesday 21 June and learned about accessibility, user research and forms.
Migration update: June 2016
Posted by:
Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Categories:
Product changes, Vision and plans
...of features - and so that we are only maintaining it in one place. Progress on Whitehall migration So far we have migrated 8 Whitehall formats to use the Publishing...
What we're working on: 27 June 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 10 June 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Improving the postcode matching on GOV.UK
We’ve just finished improving the application we use on GOV.UK for postcode matching. It’s used to give a result for ‘local transactions’ and ‘find my nearest’ formats. Local transactions help users find services and content that are provided by their …
What we're working on: 10 June 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 26 May 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
The GOV.UK roadmap - 2016 to 2017
...a single platform overhauling tagging, building a taxonomy system and redesigning site navigation helping departments and agencies get ready to transform and tag their content These are big, transformational changes....
And in other GDS blogs...
Here are a couple of blog posts from the other GDS teams that caught my eye.
What we're working on: 26 May 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 13 May 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Workshops on pair writing and writing good content change requests
We’re re-running a couple of workshops from past content conferences, one practicing pair writing and one to help people submitting content change requests to GOV.UK content designers at GDS. Writing good content change requests We know a lot of people …
Guest post: Reducing guidance about school procurement
At the beginning of the year we asked the content design community if they had any examples of best practice that they could share, to help other teams see how they might also make improvements to their content. This post …
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