DesignOps
The DesignOps team supports design teams to work effectively and efficiently, with standards, guidance, and support.
Who we are
The team is led by the head of design, and is a multidiscipline team who work on developing guidance, processes, tools and supporting design and the wider department.
Andy Jones
Head of Design
Kerry Lyons
Senior Content Designer
Jake Lloyd
Senior Accessibility Specialist
Adam Dumbell
User Researcher
How we can help
The DesignOps team can help you with:
- design standards and guidance
- design tools and resources
- getting started using the Design history product
- preparing for a service assessment
- accessibility guidance, support, and audit triage
- prototyping, GitHub, and Heroku
- design system and frontend framework
If you have any design or accessibility related questions, you can get in touch with the team in the following ways:
- DfE Teams channel
- DesignOps
- Cross-Gov Slack
- #DfE-DesignOps
What our products help people do
Accessibility and inclusive design manual
The Accessibility and inclusive design manual supports teams to deliver consistently accessible and inclusive products and websites everyone can use.
Additional information:
- Accessibility and inclusive design manual Source code in GitHub
- Accessibility and inclusive design manual Design history
Apply the Service Standard in DfE
Apply the Service Standard in DfE (ASSiDfE) enables teams to build DfE products and websites that apply the Government Service Standard throughout delivery.
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Create and manage standards
Create and manage standards supports standard owners in DfE to co-create and manage digital, data and technology standards in a consistent, supported way.
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Design histories
Design histories empower service teams to work in the open, document design decisions and changes to a service over time.
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Design manual
The Design manual supports everyone to design consistent, accessible, user-centred products and services in DfE.
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Find and use standards
Find and use standards allows people to easily find, understand and apply DfE digital, data, and technology standards.
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Service assessment service
The Service assessment service allows teams to book, manage and assess DfE products and services that need a service assessment.
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