Things we learnt when we hired six designers at the same time
This year we’ve interviewed, hired and welcomed six new interaction and graphic designers to the Digital Publishing team at ONS (Office for National Statistics). A few weeks ago I ran an anonymous...
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It’s official: Digital Leaders week is over for 2019! From the 17 to 21 June we hosted 6 events on 2 of our sites. Subjects ranged from Inclusive design, Agile troubleshooting and designing accessible...
View ArticleCommuting: a case study on collaborating
Commuting: most people do it, most people hate it. We know men do more of the longer commutes, and our newest analysis published at the beginning of September showed that women are more likely to leave...
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A Week of Service Design in Wales
In December 2019, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in Newport hosted an amazing week of service design-related events. The week started with the 9th cross government service design meetup:...
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How to format your work with accessibility and style in mind
Practical design tips you can follow to improve the readability of documents and presentations Introduction to accessibility There’s a lot of discussion about accessibility and making work accessible,...
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How we build scrollytelling articles
TL; DR? Our scrollytelling articles are built with Svelte, Layer Cake and Mapbox GL JS (v1). You can view our template code here, and the full code of our most recent article here. This blog post is...
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Embedding ONS interactives in your website
Here’s a simple guide to embedding our interactive maps and charts and making them responsive, so they look their best on mobiles and tablets and of course on desktop. This guide is suitable for those...
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50 years on: are our digital releases more user-friendly than their print...
As an English literature graduate, I have always associated old, leather-bound books with great works of fiction. But when I stumbled across the Newport office’s very own ONS library, I found grand...
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A week in the life of a census content designer
Earlier this year, I shadowed two senior content designers bringing Census 2021 to life. In the world of census, nothing happens by chance. All decisions are made with users in mind. Every journey and...
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Semi-automation and Census 2021: how we told 331 local stories in one go
Our semi-automated articles on “how your area has changed in 10 years” quite literally brought Census 2021 home. This built on our previous automation on local health by taking the “robo-journalism”...
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