Home Office guidance and tools
Home Office guidance and tools you need to build and run your service.
Design
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Content design recommended reading
Specialist reading recommended by the content design community. Books The Elements of Content Strategy, by Erin Kissane Plain Words, by Gowers and Fraser Content Strategy...
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Home Office design system
Patterns, components and styles to improve consistency across services and reduce duplication of work. Our system fills the gaps between GOV.UK design system and Home...
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Structuring and versioning prototypes
How to maintain and organise versions of prototypes for designers and researchers. Naming conventions If you use Heroku to host your prototype, make sure your...
Engineering and architecture
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Software engineering best practice
Software engineering best practice guidance, including technical service requirements, APIs, security, testing, licensing and branching. Technical service requirements Services should be built to meet our...
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Tech stack: languages, frameworks and tooling
Home Office recommended languages, frameworks and technology, including information on technologies in the complete tech stack. Selecting languages, frameworks and technology Our recommended languages for...
User research
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Introduction to user research at the Home Office
User research is a thriving discipline at the Home Office. User researchers work across the department, gaining insight into our users to improve services for...
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Discovery phase user research at the Home Office
The discovery phase is about exploring the problems you want to solve. During this phase you’ll work with your agile team to: form hypotheses and...
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Alpha phase user research at the Home Office
The alpha phase is about learning which options work best. To do this your team needs to test the hypotheses developed during the discovery phase....
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Beta phase user research at the Home Office
The beta phase is about building and refining the best option discovered in the alpha phase. Your team will continue to learn and iterate by...
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User research repository
A repository of research assets from other projects to help you understand your users, their needs and the problems they might encounter. Email CentreOfExcellenceCentral@digital.homeoffice.gov.uk to...