PinnedInUX CollectivebyColin Oakley·Jun 7, 2021The web we choose to buildPrinciples for user-centred front-end development
Colin Oakley·Apr 26, 2025Welcome to GOV.UK Prototype recipesOver the passed few months I’ve tried to write up more articles to do with the GOV.UK prototype kit — I’ve over time written and delivered…
Colin Oakley·Sep 5, 2024GOV.UK Prototype Kit: New layouts with service navigationWith the release of the new service navigation component, there are a couple of things we can do to integrate it into the prototype tool…
Colin Oakley·Aug 20, 2024Creating reusable task flows using GOV.UK Prototype Kit pluginsThe biggest change I’ve seen since I started using the prototype kit was in version 13 introducing the ability to install plugins via npm.
Colin Oakley·Oct 5, 2023Hidden link text, but is this accessible?I get asked a lot of questions about whether something is or isn’t accessible this week’s questions were around the GOV.UK Check your…
Colin Oakley·Apr 27, 2023Visual component testing using playwrightEverything at scale gets a little bit more tricky, slowly but surely a lot of the building blocks of internal services have been DWP design…
Colin Oakley·Mar 24, 2023Accessibility OKRs — part 1If like a lot of places your year start in April — then there is no better time to talk about accessibility metrics.
Colin Oakley·Oct 16, 2018Building a community of speakersOne of the things I love most about Newcastle is the great community of meet-ups.
Colin Oakley·Apr 13, 2018Reflections on running a first conferenceWhen I started talking to Gavin, who ran both DIBI and Industry Conf, he said that “running a conference will be one of the most…A response icon1A response icon1
Colin Oakley·Mar 27, 2018Thoughts from DWP Digital design Patterns meet-up #2If you missed it I did some thoughts from Meetup #1.
