Blog posts, videos and podcasts
To learn more about the GOV.UK Design System and Prototype Kit, check out these blog posts, video talks and podcasts that our team and community have shared.
About the Design System
Find out how the Design System and Prototype Kit work and what they do to make services more accessible and inclusive.
Get to WCAG 2.2 faster with the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 11 January 2024
Exit this page fast with the Design System’s new component (blog post) – 14 August 2023
A new accessibility strategy for the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 6 January 2023
Making the GOV.UK Frontend typography scale more accessible (blog post) – 12 December 2022
How we prioritise additions to the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 7 September 2022
The GOV.UK Design System is now live (blog post) – 31 March 2022
Help us shape the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 23 February 2022
Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox (blog post) – 15 November 2021
An update on the accessibility of conditionally revealed questions (blog post) – 21 September 2021
Making links easier to see and read on GOV.UK (blog post) – 7 July 2021
Designing the service behind the GOV.UK Design System (video) – 9 January 2020
Inclusive Documentation (video) – 4 October 2019
Making the Design System more accessible (blog post) – 29 July 2019
Inclusive forms, Anatomy of a (fictional) GOV.UK service (video) – 26 February 2019
Accessibility in the GOV.UK Design System (blog post and video) – 30 November 2018
Introducing the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 22 June 2018
Building Accessible Components and the GOV.UK Design System (video) – 11 June 2018
Building the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 30 October 2017
We’ve updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK (blog post) – 30 November 2016
Benefits of the Design System
See how the Design System helps service teams across government.
GDS Podcast, GOV.UK Design System (podcast) – 28 February 2020
Measuring the value of the GOV.UK Design System (video) – 5 February 2020
How the GOV.UK Design System can work alongside other government design resources (blog post) – 14 February 2019
The benefits of migrating GOV.UK Pay’s codebase to the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 21 December 2018
How to use the Design System
Get some practical advice on how to use the Design System and Prototype Kit.
Inspecting WCAG 2.2: Accessible Authentication (video) – 26 October 2023
Inspecting WCAG 2.2: Target Size (video) – 31 July 2023
Testing a component’s accessibility (video) – 26 July 2023
Inspecting WCAG 2.2: Focus Not Obscured (video) – 5 July 2023
Going beyond the GOV.UK Design System for MoJ Forms professional users (blog post) – 21 March 2022
Building digital services that work for everyone (video) – 21 May 2020
Adapting the GOV.UK Design System for the NHS (blog post) – 4 June 2019
How we document components and patterns in the GOV.UK Design System (blog post) – 5 November 2018
We’ve updated the prototype kit (blog post) – 18 January 2016
Contributing to the community
Find out how our community works and how to be a part of it.
Working as a community to iterate the task list pattern (blog post) – 15 December 2023
Iterating the GOV.UK Design System contribution model (blog post) – 31 May 2023
Why I contribute to the GOV.UK Design System (and why you should too) (blog post) – 7 April 2022
GDS Podcast, Maps in services (podcast) – 30 November 2021
Building the Community Behind GOV.UK Design System (video) – March 2020
Contributing the bank details pattern to the GOV.UK Design System – 23 October 2019
Opening up the GOV.UK Design System for contributions (blog post) – 26 September 2018
Looking at design systems across government (blog post) – 21 December 2016
Add a link to this page
To help us make this page better, you can propose to add a link that you’ve created or think would be useful to the community. Links need to meet the GOV.UK external link policy and the Design System community principles.
Before we publish a new link, we’ll make sure that:
- it adds to the knowledge base of our community
- it meets the Design System community principles
- it shows the Design System or Prototype Kit as it currently works
- the content is usable and accessible (especially on mobile) so everyone can use it
- it does not endorse a particular product, platform or framework
- it does not promote a product or service for commercial gain
- users can access the content without having to pay or register to see it
- it’s a safe place to send a user, based on site’s privacy and cookie policies
Need help?
If you’ve got a question about the GOV.UK Design System, contact the team.