How to use cross-government Slack
Tips on how to join and make the most of the cross-government Slack workspace.
Projects
GOV.UK Components
Lightweight Ruby on Rails components for developing with the GOV.UK Design System.
GOV.UK Design History
Document and share design decisions. Create a permanent record of how your service has developed over time.
GOV.UK Eleventy Plugin
Write documentation using Markdown and publish it using GOV.UK styles.
GOV.UK Form Builder
A form builder for Ruby on Rails that’s compatible with the GOV.UK Design System.
GOV.UK Prototype Components
Use common or experimental components that are not yet in the GOV.UK Design System.
GOV.UK Prototype Filters
Prototype with data using helpful template filters.
GOV.UK Services List
A catalogue of digital services from the UK government and its agencies.
Posts
Rapidly prototype with data using this set of helpful template filters
Introducing a plugin for the GOV.UK Prototype Kit that adds a helpful collection of Nunjucks template filters. Rapidly modify and transform data while ensuring it follows the GOV.UK style guide.
Maintaining a list of GOV.UK services
Why the community has built a list of over 400 digital UK government services, including links to source code and service assessments, and how you can contribute.
Why I contribute to the GOV.UK Design System (and why you should too)
How I helped to publish a pattern for confirming a phone number, and ways in which you can contribute to the GOV.UK Design System too.
Write documentation using Markdown and publish it using GOV.UK styles
The GOV.UK Eleventy Plugin makes it easy to start writing documentation rather than spend time building a website for it.
An introduction to X-GOVUK
What the “X” in “X-GOVUK” stands for.
Resources
Design
Design systems, patterns and components
- GOV.UK Design System
- Digital Land Design System
- Digital Scotland Design System
- DWP Design System
- GOV.WALES components
- HM Land Registry Design System
- HMRC Design Patterns
- Home Office Design System
- Ministry of Justice Pattern Library
- MOD.UK Design System
- NHS Design System
- NICE Design System
- Office for National Statistics Design System
- Transport for West Midlands Design System
- Hackney Design System
- Croydon design and content guidelines
Other design resources
- Accessibility Personas
- Department for Education Design Manual
- Statistics on usage of
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User research
Content design
- Government Digital Service style guide
- Department for Education glossary
- GOV.WALES style guide
- HMRC content style guide
- NHS content style guide