Designing a style guide for Defra content designers
Designing a style guide for Defra content designers
Senior content designer Louisa Mallon describes how her team planned and created a Defra style guide.
Transforming Defra together: the journey from paper to online forms
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Jenny Taylor and Anna Scott, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Defra content design, Defra Forms
It’s been a busy year for Defra Forms. Lead Product Manager Jenny Taylor and Senior Content Designer Anna Scott reflect on the story so far, lessons learnt and reaching the exciting step of rolling out forms guidance and tools access …
Improving and evolving: Defra's content community projects
I’m Graeme Claridge, and I’ve been head of content design at Defra since April 2024. We’re a large community, with around 70 content designers. There's a lot to celebrate about our community: we’re incredibly supportive of each other, we’re highly …
What a content designer does in alpha
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Kaitlin D'Avella, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Defra content design, Defra digital, Defra services, User centred design
Kaitlin D'Avella explains what content designers do in the alpha stage of a project.
Defra group digital and data transformation strategy: how we’re making our services better
David Caldwell, Defra’s Deputy Director for Digital Transformation, provides an update on the work underway to transform digital services in Defra. It has been a while since we last shared what we’re doing to transform our services. I took up …
Creating an online form to apply for a county parish holding (CPH) number
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Alice Wilson, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Defra content design, Defra digital, Defra Forms, Digital transformation, User centred design
Senior content designer Alice Wilson writes about how she worked with the Defra Forms team to create a more accessible online version of a PDF form for livestock keepers.
How we are leading a bold and innovative approach to online forms
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Jenny Taylor, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Defra content design, Defra digital, Defra Forms, Defra service design, User centred design
Jenny Taylor explains how the Defra Forms team has launched a new way to provide accessible online forms that meet a broad range of user needs across the Defra group and ends our ongoing reliance on paper-based forms.
Thinking big and bold: Meet fast streamer Amad Ahmed
Digital, Data, Technology (DDaT) and Cyber Fast Streamer Amad Ahmed considers what inspires him to think big and to be bold and innovative in his approach to work. Hi, I’m Amad, and I joined Defra last October, as part of …
How content designers add value to projects, from start to finish
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Jenn Brookbanks and Catherine Flack, Posted on:
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Defra content design, Defra digital, User centred design
We work in Defra’s farming content improvement team. Our role is to iterate and improve farming-related content on GOV.UK. One of our goals is to help farmers understand what type of funding is available and how to apply for it. …
Spotlight on Talent Development – meet summer intern Kiril Korzikovas
Summer intern Kiril Korzikovas shares his experience of completing the Civil Service Summer Internship Programme here at Defra digital data technology and security. I’m Kiril, a second-year student studying Economics and Russian at the University of Sheffield. I started my …
How Defra are finding accessibility participants for user research
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Jason Stockwell, Posted on:
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Accessibility, User centred design, User research
User researcher Jason Stockwell explains how, as a Participant Lead, his job is to make sure user researchers have the right processes in place to get access to participants for research rounds.
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