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The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Find the best guidance and tools to meet the accessibility regulations.
Find registered designs in the UK
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s deal to buy Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by the vast majority of UK digital designers.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Introduction to content design.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Help your team understand why they need to meet the website and mobile app accessibility regulations.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Create a mobile experience that meets user needs without relying on native or hybrid apps.
How to test your service for different browsers and devices: user needs, verified browsers, adapting to change.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
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