Interaction Design in Defra

What Interaction Designers do.

Services we're working on.

Design Community

• Defra Interaction Design call, last Friday of every month
• Defra User Centered Design meet-up, quarterly
• Warrington Community of Practice, every two weeks on Tuesday afternoon
• Bristol Community of Practice, every month on Thursday afternoon
• Defra digital Slack Workspace using _defra at the end of your name
• Cross Gov digital Slack Workspace
• Digital designers mailing list
• Defra Digital on Twitter

Design principles

• Defra design standards
• Defra pattern library (coming soon)
• GDS Design principles
• GDS Design System
• GDS Design System Backlog
• GDS Service Manual
• GDS UCD training

Prototyping

A prototype should be the quickest, simplest way to learn about something, or to test an idea.

• Google drawings wireframing kit
• Sketch wireframing kit
• Sketch flow kit
• GDS prototype kit
• Use the Defra GitHub account for version control and sharing code
• Set up two factor authentication in Github
• Use Heroku for hosting password protected prototypes
• Defra prototype training (coming soon)s

Useful Blogs

• https://defradigital.blog.gov.uk/
• https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
• https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/