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Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
List of all the tools and techniques in the toolkit.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
These cheap tools can help make policy more open.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
This section includes tools to help you move from low fidelity ideas to policies and services that can be delivered to users
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
How to use a before-and-after study to evaluate your digital health product.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
Design, build and operate APIs in a consistent way
Benefit from your design by licensing, mortgaging, selling, changing ownership and exploit by marketing.
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
How to use a feasibility study when planning the evaluation of your digital health product.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Tools for sensitive or unannounced policy areas.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
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