Design community
The design community exists to:
- make sure that government services are designed to meet user needs
- create and support a peer group of designers across government
- collaboratively create and improve design patterns and best practice
- build and support the practice of design in government
- share and develop design knowledge and skills across government
- discuss and challenge the way government designs services
Who the community is for
You might be interested in this community if you work on government services in any of these roles:
- interaction designer
- graphic designer
- service designer
- content designer
- product analyst
Watch a video to learn more about the UK government design community.
Getting involved
If you’re interested in discussing design issues, you can:
- join the digital service designers mailing list - you can request access by emailing join-digital-service-designers@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk using your government email address.
- join the design channel or content design channel on the UK government Slack - you can create a Slack account using your government email address
- share ideas on the GOV.UK Design System community backlog
- write blog posts for the design in government blog or the services in government blog
- follow and use the #GovDesign and #GovContent hashtags on Twitter
- join the cross-government content community Basecamp
If you cannot access any of these discussion spaces, email join-digital-service-designers@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk for help.
User-centred design training, events and meetups
The user-centred design communities run user-centred design training, events and meetups to help support research and design practitioners across government.
The team is also responsible for Services Week, a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.
Community resources
You may find these resources useful:
- the Service Manual to understand how to meet the Service Standard
- the government design principles to guide your work
- the GOV.UK Design System to source styles, components and patterns for your designs
- the design in government blog to learn more about design in government
- videos of talks about user-centred design in government
- the GOV.UK Prototype Kit to prototype services that look and work like GOV.UK
- the govdesign tumblr to find posters and stickers from the government design community
You should also read the:
Some blog posts worth reading:
- What we mean by service design
- The different types of design in government
- Identifying a good service
- Getting permission to use GOV.UK fonts
You may also be interested in the following communities:
- Last update:
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Added links to several new course dates
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Added link to training now open for registration: user research in government: a basic introduction (London).
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Guidance first published