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 future of detailed guides
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Product changes, Working with us
Reviewing detailed guides Before we begin the agency transition, GDS has been reviewing the detailed guidance format. We’ve looked closely at the performance data, talked to departments about how they use it, and carried out user testing to see how …
New guidelines and features for consultations
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Product changes
Consultations was one of the themes of our sprint for the government team this fortnight. This included implementing designs that make it clearer what stage a consultation is at (e.g. open, closed and analysing responses, outcome). Feedback vs Outcome We've also tried …
Policy pages: a quick guide to responsibilities
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve had a few questions recently about levels of responsibility for policy pages on GOV.UK. So we thought we’d address them …
When first impressions can be deceptive: analytics case study
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. In the GOV.UK content team, we keep an eye on how all our content pages are performing using the Performance platform. …
Editorial reviews and mainstream content
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. The editorial review or 'second pair of eyes' (2i) function is a vital part of the publishing process for mainstream content …
Refining related links
Alongside most 'mainstream' content on GOV.UK, you'll find links to other related items of content. Today, we're making some changes to how they appear.
Top tasks: what you should feature on your organisation homepage
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’d like to bring a bit more consistency and user focus to the links in the top right-hand corner of organisation …
Heatwave: too hot to work?
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Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on:
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User insights
Last week, Peter Jordan looked at how the warm weather and other external events affected traffic to GOV.UK. With temperatures getting hotter and hotter, what was the effect on our heat-related content?
Themes for this sprint (23 July to 6 Aug)
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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What we're working on
This fortnight, the sprint themes for the government section are going to be…. 1. Preparing for all ALB consultations to be on GOV.UK GDS and departments have agreed, in consultation with the Consultation Principles Review team, that all central government …
Organisation homepages: choosing the right image
We're really impressed with departmental homepages at the moment. There's some very strong imagery being used, to help engage users and encourage them to explore further. In this post, we thought we'd feature some examples of best practice – and share …
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