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Archive for April, 2011

Apr 28

Set of design rules created by the team responsible for producing the alpha of GOV.UK. Many moons later, variants of some of these rules turned up in the GDS Design Principles
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A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk

Back in February when we were kicking off the alpha project, we spent the first couple of weeks scouring search logs and analytics for the various central government websites; thinking about who our users were and generally discussing the kind of thing we were setting out to make.

Read more about Alphagov’s design rules

Apr 28

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Towards a simpler, smaller, nimbler, cheaper, better gov.uk

Late last year Martha Lane Fox published a raft of recommendations intended to revolutionise the UK Government’s online services. At the launch of her report.

“Government should take advantage of the more open, agile and cheaper digital technologies to deliver simpler and more effective digital services to users.”

Read more about the Alphagov project

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