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jystewarton Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov

If you could email a screenshot and your browser details to govuk-feedback@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk someone will have a look at that. thanks!

jystewarton Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov

Great to hear our model's been helpful. Do let me know if/when there's anything to look at as I'd love to see how it's translated.

jystewarton Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov

Not sure about the whole government :)

But we're getting most of our code up there and beginning to convince others that code funded by taxpayers should be released as openly as possible.

We've received some interesting pull requests along the way, eg. https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1

jystewarton Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov

There's definitely been a lot of good thinking and guidance around the government for a long time.

The real difference here is that the Government Digital Service is empowered to actually build some of this in-house and so the principles are emerging from actual practice. We're also able to get involved in some procurement processes very early on and work with the appointed suppliers. We're also hoping that other people putting them into practice will come back with feedback we can incorporate to make them better and illustrate them more fully.

Getting these principles thoroughly embedded is going to be a long journey, but they're a far cry from being just another good practice document that'll be ignored.

jystewarton Digital Design Principles from the UK Gov

The BBC approach has definitely influenced our work on these principles and there's a lot of great thinking captured in them.

Ben Terrett (GOV.UK/GDS Head of Design) talked about that a bit in one of the blog posts introducing our design principles: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/04/03/design-princi...