Joe Lanman · @joelanman
678 followers · 1805 posts · Server hachyderm.io

One thing per page is one of the most powerful design patterns we have. It makes it so much easier for people to understand a page, to resolve any errors and only see the pages and questions that are relevant to them. If research says it's better to combine some questions, do that, but it's a great start point.

gov.uk/service-manual/design/f

#govdesign #design #ux

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
671 followers · 1767 posts · Server hachyderm.io
Joe Lanman · @joelanman
670 followers · 1759 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Small but important update to the GOV.UK Design System guidance:

> Accept month names written out in full or abbreviated form (for example, ‘january’ or ‘jan’) as some users may enter months in this way.

This came from quant data on Apply for teacher training service, showing that many people did this, and fits our error validation guidance: "accept information in different formats, as long as it’s not ambiguous"

design-system.service.gov.uk/c

#govdesign #ux

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
667 followers · 1732 posts · Server hachyderm.io
Joe Lanman · @joelanman
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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
609 followers · 1355 posts · Server hachyderm.io

We've published a new GOV.UK Prototype Kit guide: Change the content within a page based on a user’s answers

prototype-kit.service.gov.uk/d

#govukprototypekit #prototyping #govdesign #frontend

Last updated 1 year ago

Joe Lanman · @joelanman
607 followers · 1344 posts · Server hachyderm.io

GOV.UK Design System have released an extremely important new component: Exit this page. Give users a way to quickly and safely exit a service, website or application.

#design #govdesign #frontend

Last updated 1 year ago

Frankie Roberto · @frankieroberto
334 followers · 520 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

A big thanks to @stevenjmesser for writing about the UK cross government Slack: x-govuk.github.io/posts/how-to

This platform and community is essential for enabling (otherwise rare) cross government collaboration.

#govdesign

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Frankie Roberto · @frankieroberto
325 followers · 504 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

As a last activity before leaving my team at DfE, I took a speculative look at how the service could be more integrated with all the other government services that the users need to interact with: becoming-a-teacher.design-hist

Actually doing this stuff is hard. Government services are often not joined up even within a single department let alone crossing department boundaries. But this is the work.

#servicedesign #govdesign

Last updated 1 year ago

Joe Lanman · @joelanman
569 followers · 1129 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Did you know you can follow hashtags on Mastodon? I follow , , how about you?

#accessibility #Mosstodon #gardening #govdesign

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
568 followers · 1114 posts · Server hachyderm.io

The excellent Vicky Teinaki has written about interaction design principles in government
vickyteinaki.com/approaching-i

#design #ux #InteractionDesign #govdesign

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Sean Boots · @sboots
905 followers · 1954 posts · Server mastodon.sboots.ca

“I would love to be able to design a government service where users didn’t need to go to the big website at all — a service so seamless and invisible that they barely register they are dealing with government.” Fantastic piece from @marthaedwards with an insightful look at GOV.UK’s recently-published growth strategy: medium.com/@mlhedwards/were-no

#gcdigital #govdesign #govuk

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
561 followers · 1058 posts · Server hachyderm.io

There are loads of great discussions and research findings on the GOV.UK Design System Backlog:
github.com/alphagov/govuk-desi

#design #userresearch #ux #accessibility #govdesign

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
557 followers · 1015 posts · Server hachyderm.io

GOV.UK Prototype Kit now has a fancy new error page to help you fix any problems in your code

prototype-kit.service.gov.uk

#govukprototypekit #prototyping #govdesign

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
557 followers · 1003 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Small but helpful GOV.UK Prototype Kit site update - a guide on setting data using links:
prototype-kit.service.gov.uk/d

#govukprototypekit #govdesign #prototyping

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Joe Lanman · @joelanman
554 followers · 952 posts · Server hachyderm.io

The GOV.UK Service Manual is such an incredible resource for working on services:
gov.uk/service-manual

#govdesign

Last updated 1 year ago

Lisa Jeffery · @lisajeffery
183 followers · 67 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

2023 featured 46 learning and sharing sessions from 20 organisations.

Here's a quick recap of what happened and why it matters.

Kudos to all who took part 🔥

services.blog.gov.uk/2023/05/0

#servicesweek #servicedesign #govdesign #localgov #govcontent

Last updated 1 year ago

Joe Lanman · @joelanman
522 followers · 741 posts · Server hachyderm.io

**We’ve published new GOV.UK Prototype Kit guides :tada:**

Branching journeys - how to show different pages based on a user’s answers. There are 2 guides - radios and checkboxes.

prototype-kit.service.gov.uk/d

#govukprototypekit #govdesign #prototyping

Last updated 2 years ago

Joe Lanman · @joelanman
516 followers · 626 posts · Server hachyderm.io

New version of the GOV.UK Prototype Kit v13.5.0!

- support for .njk extension
- better error pages, for example 404 missing page
- easier to set page titles

prototype-kit.service.gov.uk

#govukprototypekit #govdesign #prototyping

Last updated 2 years ago

Joe Lanman · @joelanman
512 followers · 576 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Lots of great design and research posters and stickers from UK Government Digital service:

git-browser.com/alphagov/govde

#design #userresearch #govdesign #govuk

Last updated 2 years ago