GDS design principles

https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples

This is a great way to think about what we do and the principles behind it all. At least one take at it.

Government Digital Service
Design Principles
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.

  1. Start with needs*
  2. Do less
  3. Design with data
  4. Do the hard work to make it simple
  5. Iterate. Then iterate again.
  6. Build for inclusion
  7. Understand context
  8. Build digital services, not websites
  9. Be consistent, not uniform
  10. Make things open: it makes things better