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Principles for user-centred front-end development

Jun 7, 2021
Jun 7, 2021

Welcome to GOV.UK Prototype recipes

Over 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…

Apr 26
Welcome to GOV.UK Prototype recipes
Welcome to GOV.UK Prototype recipes
Apr 26

GOV.UK Prototype Kit: New layouts with service navigation

With the release of the new service navigation component, there are a couple of things we can do to integrate it into the prototype tool…

Sep 5, 2024
GOV.UK Prototype Kit: New layouts with service navigation
GOV.UK Prototype Kit: New layouts with service navigation
Sep 5, 2024

Creating reusable task flows using GOV.UK Prototype Kit plugins

The biggest change I’ve seen since I started using the prototype kit was in version 13 introducing the ability to install plugins via npm.

Aug 20, 2024
Example of GOVUK prototype kit plugin install screen showing what you can install by default
Example of GOVUK prototype kit plugin install screen showing what you can install by default
Aug 20, 2024

Hidden 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…

Oct 5, 2023
Example of a check your answers form GOV.UK design system
Example of a check your answers form GOV.UK design system
Oct 5, 2023

Visual component testing using playwright

Everything at scale gets a little bit more tricky, slowly but surely a lot of the building blocks of internal services have been DWP design…

Apr 27, 2023
Visual component testing using playwright
Visual component testing using playwright
Apr 27, 2023

Accessibility OKRs — part 1

If like a lot of places your year start in April — then there is no better time to talk about accessibility metrics.

Mar 24, 2023
Mar 24, 2023

Building a community of speakers

One of the things I love most about Newcastle is the great community of meet-ups.

Oct 16, 2018
Building a community of speakers
Building a community of speakers
Oct 16, 2018

Reflections on running a first conference

When I started talking to Gavin, who ran both DIBI and Industry Conf, he said that “running a conference will be one of the most…

Apr 13, 2018
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Reflections on running a first conference
Reflections on running a first conference
Apr 13, 2018
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Thoughts from DWP Digital design Patterns meet-up #2

If you missed it I did some thoughts from Meetup #1.

Mar 27, 2018
Thoughts from DWP Digital design Patterns meet-up #2
Thoughts from DWP Digital design Patterns meet-up #2
Mar 27, 2018
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Colin Oakley

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