13. GOV.UK UX
13. Build a service consistent with the user experience of the rest of GOV.UK including using the design patterns and style guide.
Link to corresponding item in JIRA: https://jira.informed.com:8443/browse/FCOLOI-166
Questions
- Has a designer and content designer been involved during the development so far?
- Is there a designer and content designer in the team or available to the team during beta?
- Have you used the GOV.UK design patterns and front-end tool kit during alpha and are you doing so during beta?
- Do you have a front-end developer in place for beta development? Have you used the GDS style guide during alpha and are you doing so during beta?
- Is the service responsive?
- Can you show us it works on mobile?
- Do the headers and footers match the GOV.UK style?
Evidence
Service Manager able to:
- explain how the service has used the GOV.UK design patterns, front-end tool kit and GDS style guide.
- explain what design, content design and front-end developer support are available to the team during beta.
- show the service is responsive and works on mobile.
- show that the headers and footers match the GOV.UK style
Has a designer and content designer been involved during the development so far? Is there a designer and content designer in the team or available to the team during beta?
See also the information in 3. The Team
Cyril Pekah, designer
Ash Matin, Chris Allison and Peter Noble, content designers in consular team
Additional support:
Design: great help from Ed Horsford in alpha when we were without a designer, which led us to try the 'Finder' UX for document selection; summary screen design sent to Tim Paul; further feedback from Ed and Joe Lanman and others on the design channel on slack; regular users of the design hackpad for unpublished pattern discussion
Content: the bulk of the content has previously been designed, and comes from the existing GOV.UK smart answer, now split into more digestible chunks and repackaged. The consular content team work regularly with Gwen and others in the GDS team on GOV.UK content e.g. smart answers, embassy pages, worldwide pages, notarial guides
Have you used the GOV.UK design patterns and front-end tool kit during alpha and are you doing so during beta?
Yes, we use the tool kit in the application service - see line 18 of this file where we have a dependency on version 4.2.1 of govuk_frontend_toolkit: https://github.com/InformedSolutions/is-application-service/blob/master/FCO-LOI-Service/package.json
Do you have a front-end developer in place for beta development? Have you used the GDS style guide during alpha and are you doing so during beta?
Yes. Robert Precious is the front-end developer.
Yes
Yes. Currently off-platform private beta so FCO instead of GOV.UK in header, but this will be updated for beta.