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Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
Find the best guidance and tools to meet the accessibility regulations.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
The design community is for anyone who wants to discuss and learn about the role of design in government.
A speech delivered by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, Michelle Donelan, at the Manufacturing Technologies Association exhibition on Tuesday 16 April.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Using the WCAG 2.2 design principles and guidelines to build accessible services.
Find out what can and cannot be published.
Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
How to test your service for different browsers and devices: user needs, verified browsers, adapting to change.
Evaluation and case studies from the first phase of our design code pilots.
Help your team understand why they need to meet the website and mobile app accessibility regulations.
You can renew a registered design or restore a design that's expired with the Intellectual Property Office
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Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
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