Digital

  • Scottish Government’s Design System – user feedback

    11th July 2022 by

    Recently, the Payments Service team completed inclusive testing on their service which has been using the Scottish Government Design System standards. The aim was to understand how accessible the task-based navigation and visual design is for the Payments Service.

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  • Design systems save organisations money and time

    29th June 2022 by

    Blog by Kevin Allen, User Centred Design team, Digital Transformation Division. What is a Design System? A design system comprises a series of building blocks which have been researched, designed, tested and coded. These building blocks are available online for internal and external developers to use. Having pre-built and tested components drastically reduces expensive development…

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  • What is a design system and why do we need one for planning?

    21st July 2021 by

    A design system is a toolkit of reusable components which together make up the overall interface that users will interact with – this short guest blog by Scottish Government Digital Planning colleagues explores the process of creating such a system and the benefits it will deliver.  A design system is a toolkit of reusable components –…

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