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.
High profile units within organisations
...department, agency or NDPB) means that they have all the features of a standard org, except: they are not listed on the organisations page, and instead are listed at the...
Groups
...up the Defence Council and Defence Board, and you can see that in action on their ‘Our governance’ page. It’s very early days for this feature. Future iterations are likely...
Busting the cache to view an update
...www.gov.uk/government/how-government-works?aksjdk [any random letters will do, but each combination will only work once] If it’s important that a new document appears all around the site the instant it is published,...
Online consultation tools
Lots of departments around government have been asking what we’re planning to do about consultations. We realised that we’ve been thinking so hard about it that we’ve not been telling...
Adding a change note
...favour of the date it was originally published. Below is a screengrab of how it looks right now on a policy. (But bear in mind the actual data here is...
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
GOV.UK is moving to be multi-channel. Learn more about our priorities by reading our strategy for growth.
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