Behind the scenes at The British Government Digital Service (GDS): Lots of people ask me what our design process is like at GDS. I thought I’d write some of that down in a place I can point to. It’s worth saying that we don’t follow this slavishly. We’re flexible and we optimise for meeting user …
Tag Archives: web
The mess we made
Windows Phone 8.1 Update includes hundreds of Internet Explorer 11 enhancements that greatly increase compatibility with the mobile web. … We updated the User Agent string in IE on Windows Phone to increase the number of sites that would correctly deliver the best mobile content. … In Windows Phone 8.1 Update, we added a mapping …
The Presets — No Fun
Design is the Experience
Gov.uk won the Design Museum Design award of 2013. It’s certainly not the prettiest website. Some people even call it boring.com. So why was it awarded? Because it disrupted the way government communicates with it’s citizens. Because it’s user centred, user focused. Because it has one of the best copy’s ever written. Because it’s extremely …
Emmet Re:View
Typesetting your CSS Objects: Fontshop Styleguide
Creating a styleguide is not a new practice in the industry. During our recent relaunch of FontShop we decided to use one, too. Read on to see how it helped us, how we did it and what we could have done better. Whilst I like the grouping of components based on the site of them, …
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Over The Hills
The container model and blended content
One of the key differences between our new beta site and the current Guardian site is the way we approach content curation and presentation. From the outset we knew we wanted to create a modular system. However we were wrestling with how we could maintain a consistent hierarchy of stories across desktop, tablet and mobile …
color: rebeccapurple;
From now on, rebeccapurple means #663399. A great tribute to a great man and his daughter who was passed away at the age of just six. Every time Eric blogged about Rebecca’s condition and how it changed over time it tore me into pieces. This is the right thing to do, just as #663399Becca was. …
Client feedback on the creation of earth
Hi God, Thanks so much for the latest round of work. Really coming together. Few points of feedback: 1 – Really liking the whole light thing but not totally sure about the naming system. “Day” and “night” are OK but we feel like there’s more we can do here. Thoughts? Definitely need to nail this …