This is a terrific takedown from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social on what we ought or ought not to be teaching children about English Tl;dr he thinks the current exam for 11 and 12 year old children is nonsense But please enjoy reading thus highly justified rant #ContentDesign #PlainLanguage
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@kerry1yons.bsky.social and I were asked to write an article for #servicegazette about our work on standards and accessibility guidance over the last couple of years. We're pleased to say you can now read the online version that was in the recent print version. medium.com/the-service-...
Developing standards and accessibility guidance
Improving services by making standards and accessibility simple
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For the cover story, @hillaryh.bsky.social wrote about ‘Digital service resilience’ & what endures when government innovation units close You can find her text & those of @richardpope.org, @kubabartwicki.bsky.social, @loudowne.bsky.social, @andyjones.bsky.social, @kerry1yons.bsky.social online soon
DfE has published a plain language standard to support teams in digital delivery. We worked in the open, shared with GDS, and are exploring whether it can help add weight to the use of plain language: dfedigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/03/19/i...
Introducing the DfE Plain Language standard
In digital, data, and technology in DfE, we’ve published a Plain Language standard. The Plain Language standard ensures that users can: The standard incorporates our ways of working and best practis...
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Do you know what a pouch of Douglas is? If you don't, find out in my short advent blog. It could come in useful one day... www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/my-pouch-of-douglas #endometriosis
In 2024, I thought a lot about my pouch of Douglas – I thought a lot about that
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
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I'm part of a group of content designers across DfE services and GOV.UK content that are drafting a plain language standard. We've based this on need and xgov conversations. Today we shared with our community. Feeling invigorated for the next stage #standards #servicestandards
Read about our service assessment service work from Kerry - our amazing content designer. www.linkedin.com/posts/kerry-...
Kerry Lyons on LinkedIn: Design Ops in DfE Weeknotes
Design Ops in DfE have just kickstarted full user-centred design work for private beta for our service assessment service. We've had a lot of xgov interest in…
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