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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
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
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
A selection of design codes, chosen by the advisory board to the Office for Place, that demonstrate good practice.
This section introduces design, digital, data and Open Policy Making and tells you when to use this toolkit.
How to use an ethnographic study to evaluate your digital health product.
This section introduces design, digital, data and Open Policy Making and tell you when to use this Toolkit.
Guidance documents and tools to help with the design and construction of school and further education college buildings and grounds.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Find registered designs in the UK
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Find out how to manage a user research session you've booked at the GDS lab, including dealing with participants and recording your session.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
Guidance on the grant to provide additional support to 21 areas producing exemplar design codes.
Guidance on the government's CMCI programme to raise private funding for renewable energy projects in the developing world.
The Design Council was a non-departmental public body of BIS, but is now an independent organisation
A collection of case studies showing how businesses have protected their designs to help create value from their ideas.
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