Senior content designer Louisa Mallon describes how her team planned and created a Defra style guide.
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 …
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 …
Kaitlin D'Avella explains what content designers do in the alpha stage of a project.
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.
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.
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. …
To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing some of our content design team at Defra's go-to accessibility tools and guides. We're all responsible for making sure our content and services are accessible, these are some of the resources we use to help with that.
In the second post of this two-part blog, Defra content designers, Ruth Fryer and Sandeep Dhaliwal mention artefacts, approaches, analysis and how to finish discovery and prepare for alpha.
In the first post of a two-part blog, content designers Ruth Fryer and Sandeep Dhaliwal explain what the discovery phase is for, and why some teams need to think about content design from the start.
