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One-day GDS Academy course on the importance of research and design in government.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Collection of insights, tools and key principles to increase adoption and customer uptake of mobile health services
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Developed by Civil Service HR (CSHR), the Global HR Design sets the standard for user centric HR services for the public sector, with a focus on UK Government.
How to create a model of how your digital health product works and choose measures for your evaluation.
Includes chapters on applications, modification, priority and convention claims, illustrations and disclaimers.
Invalidation or cancellation, is the legal process which allows anyone to try and remove a design from our register
This guide illustrates how well-designed places that are beautiful, enduring and successful can be achieved in practice.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Results of past design and design right decisions issued by us since 2013.
We are seeking views on how to make the designs framework better and encourage creativity, innovation and give the UK a competitive edge.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
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