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Making government digital services fast

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November 14, 2013

Making government digital services fast

A talk on behalf of GDS and GOV.UK for Velocity Europe, London November 2013

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November 14, 2013
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  1. GDS @psd GDS @psd 1. Start with needs! 2. Do

    less! 3. Design with data! 4. Do the hard work to make it simple! 5. Iterate. Then iterate again.! 6. This is for everyone! 7. Understand context! 8. Build things people can build on! 9. Be consistent, not uniform! 10. Make things open: it makes things better www.gov.uk/designprinciples Design Principles
  2. GDS @psd Bad conversion of font files…! FOUF .. FOUT

    …! Number of font files …! Size of downloads …! … speed!
  3. GDS @psd Minimal viable font! Caching!! Right font to right

    browser! Encoded in CSS! Professionally hinted font
  4. GDS @psd 2 server { ! server_name www.direct.gov.uk; ! !

    rewrite =  /en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCredits/Gettingstarted/whoqualifies/DG_201943 ! https://www.gov.uk/working-tax-credit/overview ! permanent; ! !  location = /en/Dl1/Directories/DG_10011810 { return 410; } ! ...
  5. 2 GDS server { ! server_name www.direct.gov.uk; ! location =

     /en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/TaxCredits/Gettingstarted/whoqualifies/DG_201943 { return 301 https://www.gov.uk/working-tax-credit/overview; } ! location = /en/Dl1/Directories/DG_10011810 { return 410; }