Design ops: how we design Home Office services at scale

...that bit faster and smoother, so they can concentrate on delivering the service. Standards Government Digital Service (GDS) has done a lot of the work to set standards for government...
Michael is a designer working for Home Office Digital. He spends his time designing user interfaces for a variety of Home Office services and systems.
...that bit faster and smoother, so they can concentrate on delivering the service. Standards Government Digital Service (GDS) has done a lot of the work to set standards for government...
...coding and prototyping, but a lot of new designers and non-design colleagues wanted to code and make their own prototypes, but had no idea where to start. There was a...
...share experimental ideas. All in the open. These experiences have helped us iterate our goals for the project by allowing us to: create a common design language across the organisation...
...all learning and trying new things. How do we share those learnings so that we make better decisions in the future? Here are some things we’re doing to better collaborate...
...should be available as text-only. That means alt tags for images, audio and video. Be careful with colour Avoid using only colour to convey meaning. Screen readers won’t communicate colour,...
...I think it’s helpful for designers to be able to code, is that it helps this relationship. I can build relationships by doing a bit of pair-developing on a part...
...regularly, it’s important to have a quick turnaround of new designs to make the most of what you’ve learnt and so you can get new iterations in front of more...
A blog about how we're improving Home Office services.
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