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The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Learn how to check if your website or mobile app is accessible.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Find registered designs in the UK
Find the best guidance and tools to meet the accessibility regulations.
Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
Descriptions of team capabilities on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
The team capabilities available on the Digital Outcomes framework.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
Check a list of software developers who can provide Customs Declaration Service and Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) software.
Skills a service team needs to deliver a successful user-focused service.
CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s deal to buy Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by the vast majority of UK digital designers.
Intellectual property research publications commissioned by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) covering designs.
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