Ayesha Tinsley explains how her team improved the content community's resources board, in the last in our series on Defra content community projects.
Content designer Lauren Stopps writes about a project to improve the content team's internal review process.
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 …
On World Environment Day we hear how colleagues from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) worked with content designers from the Defra farming content team to improve the scheme guidance on GOV.UK, ahead of the launch of this year’s Countryside Stewardship (CS) schemes.
Defra is recruiting content designers for its future farming programme. Sue Agnew, Jenn Brookbanks and Tom Metcalf recently joined the team. Read about their experience of the content design role and what they enjoy about it, to help you decide if this role is right for you.
For National Storytelling Week, Melissa Massey shares how content design has helped her with her creative writing including research and scoping out work, understanding the audience you are writing for, looking at the structure and user journey and language used.
