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Connecting Design Systems 'Hack' #2

Join us online in this joint MoJ and GDS hack day, working on 'connecting' governmental design systems.

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Imran Hussain@imhuyorks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The GOV.UK Design System is joining up with MoJ Digital to run a second 'Connecting Design Systems' Hack Day. 🗓️ 10 February, 10am-1pm GMT, online Featuring: • Recap of 1st hack • How MoJ built the Reuse Library • Ideation and prototyping 🎟️ Grab a ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

The GOV.UK Design System is joining up with MoJ Digital to run a second 'Connecting Design Systems' Hack Day. 🗓️ 10 February, 10am-1pm GMT, online Featuring: • Recap of 1st hack • How MoJ built the Reuse Library • Ideation and prototyping 🎟️ Grab a ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

Connecting Design Systems 'Hack' #2

Join us online in this joint MoJ and GDS hack day, working on 'connecting' governmental design systems.

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I wrote a blog post after running some service pattern hackdays for @govstack.bsky.social. 'A recipe for Service Patterns' imranhussain.uk/a-recipe-for... #UX #UI #ServicePatterns #hack #co-design #Gov

The next #DesignSystemChat is on 🗓️ Weds 10 December 2025, 11am-12pm GMT We'll be workshopping the 'Get Feedback' component and seeing if we can improve it. 🎟️ Grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys... #DesignSystem #services #UX #design

Design System Chat: December 2025

Join us for December 2025's Design System Chat. Hosted by the GOV.UK Design System.

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👂 We want to hear from team in wider government about how they use the GOV•UK Design System and GOV•UK FrontEnd. Any feedback will help us support teams better in the future. 💬 Join the discussion here: github.com/alphagov/gov...

Teams in wider government: How do you use GOV.UK Frontend and the Design System? · alphagov govuk-design-system · Discussion #5001

About this work Since June 2025, we’ve made updates to the Design System to support work on the GOV.UK brand, in line with the GOV.UK brand guidelines. As part of GOV.UK Frontend v6.0.0, the colour...

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Join the Service Patterns Hack Day 2 to co-design and smash (stress-test) service patterns, including: • E-signature • Wallet • Payment 🗓️ Thursday 27 Nov 2025, 2pm-4.30pm GMT 🎟️ Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/service-pa...

Service Patterns Hack Day 2 - with Govstack

Join the GovStack UX working group for this hack day event, to co-design service patterns for payment, messaging, e-signature, & wallet!

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I'm helping GovStack plan and facilitate some of their Hack Days. Join the first session to help design the following open-source Service Patterns: • GovChat, Scheduling, and Admin Interfaces 🗓️ Wednesday 19 November 2025, 10am GMT 🎟️ Read more and grab a ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/service-pa...

Hallo! The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component. You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov... Please take 3 mins to feed back. 🙌Danke, Imran

Work in or around the #PublicSector? Fancy a breakfast time natter, and optional co-working day? The last 3 #OneTeamGov North #Manchester meetups of 2025 are on Tuesday: 🐝 21 October, 🐝 18 November, 🐝 16 December. Sign up via www.eventbrite.com/o/hosted-by-...

I was so stoked to finally run something with @claragt.bsky.social . We’ve been looking to work together for ages and I finally got the chance today @sdingov.bsky.social It was such a deliberate, thoughtful and intentional crowd as well. A true pleasure all round!

Clara Greo@claragt.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I had a wonderful time delivering a workshop on Ending gracefully at #sdingov with @imhuyorks.bsky.social this morning. The room was gentle, reflective and intentional. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Imran for showing me a different mode to facilitate in.

Come and join the conversation in our monthly #DesignSystemChat. This month we'll be talking about #ServicePatterns. 🗓️ Tuesday 30 September, 2pm-3pm BST 🎟️ Read more and grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Design System Chat - September 2025

Join us for July 2025's Design System Chat to discuss Service Patterns. Hosted by the GOV.UK Design System.

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Have you got 30 minutes in the next few weeks to speak to me about the GOV.UK Design System community. If you do, sign-up for an informal chat here: forms.gle/ASfUpvpgT1yM... Danke 🙌

Design System Community - insights chat

Hello, Imran from the Design System team is looking to speak to people to find out more about your journey in joining the community. It is just an informal chat, and any information will be used by Im...

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Imran Hussain@imhuyorks.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi everyone, I’m looking to improve the process of joining the GOV.‌UK Design System community. I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year. If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. We need a venue: 1️⃣ for 250 people, 2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms, 3️⃣ wheelchair accessible. @imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search. Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

Hi everyone, I’m looking to improve the process of joining the GOV.‌UK Design System community. I’d like to speak to people who have started using the design system in the last year. If you can spare 30 minutes for an informal chat, I’d love to talk! 💬 Sign-up:https://forms.gle/Pr334RMFYUWV8ENP9 .

Hey all, Sign up for July's #DesignSystemChat, running Weds 16 July, 10.30am BST This month we'll discuss our events/ workshop offer: ▪️ What's our current offer? ▪️ What do you attend? ▪️ What would you like to see more of? 🎟️ You can grab a ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Design System Chat - July 2025

Join us for July 2025's Design System Chat to discuss what events you'd like to see from us. Hosted by the GOV.UK Design System.

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Really excited about doing a #Community themed UX talk at #UXScotland tomorrow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 🧑🏽‍💻 I’ll be writing it up after the event, so keep an eye out for post with the fully intended tongue-in-cheek title: “With Great Community, Comes Great Responsibility”

Heading up to Edinburgh for #UXScotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 . Gimme a shout if you’re also about in Edinburgh this week!

💥 New Blog Post 💥 The psychology of scaling community, featuring: • What do 'diffusion of responsibility' and 'social loafing' mean? • How do they impact team dynamics and communities? • What can you do about them? Read here: imranhussain.uk/the-psycholo... #community #psychology #dynamics

Looking forward to speaking to Content Club folks about considering compounding barriers & intersectionality when we think about accessibility. Thank you @niacampbell.bsky.social @adrianortega.bsky.social @contentdesign.london for organising!

What’s up Bluesky, I’m starting to look for my next professional opportunity. If you are looking for someone community, co-design or collaboration shaped, please get in touch 💬

The GOV.UK Design System team running our first install-a-thon on Thursday 24 April 1pm-3pm BST. It’s a new session format where we will support people to upgrade their version of GOV.UK FrontEnd to the latest version (5.9.0). 🎟️ Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/install-a-... Thanks, Imran

So I'm starting to line up the talks this year. The next one will be at "Hey! All Day" in Leeds, on Thursday 1 May. I'll be doing a lightning version of my new talk on community ethics: With Great Community Comes Great Responsibility 😜 #talk #community #ethics #Hey!AllDay

Had the pleasure of doing a talk with @calvinlau.bsky.social for #ContentClub earlier this week. We talked about spreading content design skills across our team, to enable Calvin to focus on the areas where his expertise can deliver the most value.

I’m doing a talk with @calvinlau.bsky.social for the Content Club tomorrow. We’ll be talking about ‘bringing everyone into content design’. Grab a ticket below 👇

Nia Campbell@niacampbell.bsky.social · last yr.

We still have some tickets left for tomorrow's Content Club pep talk. @imhuyorks.bsky.social and Calvin Lau will be showing how they plan to instil good content practices and upskill team members. 5pm UK time, online, free! 🌟 Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/weare...

I'm running some 🗺️ #MapsInServices sessions for #ServicesWeek 2025! Running 17-21 March, there will be 5 sessions, running from 9.30am-10.30am Monday-Friday. We'll be aiming to draft a page of Map Design principles for the GOV.UK Service Manual. 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maps-in-se...

Maps In Services: Services Week workshops

Join our Services Week workshops and help us create some design principles for the use of maps in public services.

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Our next #DesignSystemChat is 🗓️ Weds 26 February 2025 11am-12pm It’s open to anyone wanting to talk public sector design systems and design. Agenda: • Essential component criteria • FrontEnd install-a-thons? • File upload component • Lean Coffee 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Design System Chat - February 2025

Join us for February 2025's Design System Chat, run by the GOV.UK Design System team.

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Finally got to write up my thoughts on UK GovCamp 2025, it was a bit of a different vibe for me this year: imranhussain.uk/reflecting-o... #UKGC25 #UKGovCamp @ukgovcamp.bsky.social

I heard a rumour that the #MapsInServices collab was coming back

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The first #DesignSystemChat of 2025, hosted by the GOV.UK Design System team is on 29 January 2025, 11am-12pm. Featuring: • Annual UX/FrontEnd survey • WCAG 2.2 video • Connecting DS hackathon • JavaScript API • 💬 What are you leaving behind in 2024? 🎟️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/d…

Design System Chat - January 2025

Join us for 2025's first Design System Chat, run by the GOV.UK Design System team.

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At @ukgovcamp.bsky.social, I led a session to design a memorial sticker for @vickytnz.bsky.social, based on a blog she wrote. I've added the ideas from the session to a Padlet board. Feel free to add some thoughts and sticker ideas: govukdesignsystem.padlet.org/ImHuYorks/vi...

Vicky Teinaki memorial sticker

Add some words to describe Vicky Teinaki and add a sticker idea. Also please heart your 3 favourite sketches.

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