Digital

  • An overview of Figma Slots

    9th September 2026 by

    Blog by Kaloyan Yordanov, Student placement, Scottish Government Design System. If you work with reusable components in Figma, you may have run into a familiar problem: the component works well until you need to add, remove or rearrange something that the original structure does not allow. The usual workaround is to detach the component instance....

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  • The mygov.scot brand refresh

    3rd September 2026 by

    Blog by the Scottish Government Digital Design Team. With the mygov.scot visual identity having remained the same since the launch of the website in 2014 the Scottish Government Digital Design Team recognised that it was time for a refresh.   We had several aims we wanted to achieve with this refresh, most notably:  to update to a modern, trustworthy and scalable mygov.scot brand  to align more closely with the Scottish Government (SG) parent brand  to establish guidelines and a more robust brand definition  Rather than completely...

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  • We made a content design system in 4 weeks

    18th March 2025 by

    Guest blog post from Andy Robertson, Senior Content Designer, Social Security Scotland. We built a design system for our intranet. It creates a consistent user experience for our colleagues processing benefit applications. The design system is a library of reusable content and patterns. Here is an overview of our approach to plan, write and build...

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  • How designing for low English literacy empowers everyone

    21st February 2025 by

    Guest blog from Marta McCullough, Content Designer, Social Security Scotland. Imagine I’d named this blog ‘Jak projektowanie z myślą o osobach z niskim poziomem znajomości angielskiego wzmacnia pozycję wszystkich klientów’. Most of you, unless you speak Polish, would have thought ‘that page is not for me.’ If I’d written this blog in a language that’s...

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  • Variables added to the Scottish Government Design System Figma Kit

    6th September 2024 by

    Blog by Kevin Allen, Lead Graphic Designer, Digital Services Division. We are very happy to announce the latest update to the Scottish Government Design System Figma Kit, bringing the kit in line with our refreshed styling guidance and the most up to date design features in Figma.                ...

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  • Scottish Government Design System Axure library update

    23rd July 2024 by

    Blog by Anusree Raju, Senior Interaction Designer, Digital Services Division, Digital Directorate   The Scottish Government Design System (SGDS) team recently launched a new version of its Axure widget library (scottishgovernment_designsystem_v2.0.rplib). It contains new and updated components and patterns. An Axure library is a collection of pre-made components to use in your designs to save...

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