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The design manual will be changing in the next few months as we move to a consolidated DDT manual for delivering good services. Tell us what's missing in the design manual and help shape the future guidance, standards and design profession in DfE.

Content design

Content design makes things easier for people to understand and use.

Guidelines

The guidelines for what we publish, how we publish, and the styles in which we write content.

Content strategies

A content strategy helps you create and maintain content that meets user needs and organisational goals.

Naming your service

Guidance to help you name your product or service to ensure it meets standards.

Guidance to meet the Plain Language standard

The principles of plain language and guidance to meet the standard.

Quality and assurance

The quality and assurance processes we use to check and improve the content we publish.

Publishing content

Understand the types of content we publish and the different ways we publish content.

Style guide

The list of words we use that support the GOV.UK style guide and are used across Department for Education products and services.

Use the guide

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