Designing a style guide for Defra content designers
Senior content designer Louisa Mallon describes how her team planned and created a Defra style guide.
Chief Statistician’s update: improving trade data visualisation for Wales
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg We recently published a new and improved version of our International goods trade: interactive dashboard, presenting regional trade statistics (RTS) from HMRC. It includes a trade summary, maps, charts and tables of trade with … Continue reading
Transforming Defra together: the journey from paper to online forms
It’s been a busy year for Defra Forms. Lead Product Manager Jenny Taylor and Senior Content Designer Anna Scott reflect on the story so far, lessons learnt and reaching the exciting step of rolling out forms guidance and tools access …
Improving and evolving: Defra’s content community projects
I’m Graeme Claridge, and I’ve been head of content design at Defra since April 2024. We’re a large community, with around 70 content designers. There’s a lot to celebrate about our community: we’re incredibly supportive of each other, we’re highly …
AI and the Welsh language
Post by Indeg, Cymraeg 2050 Team, Welsh Government Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg When we published the Welsh language technology action Plan in 2018, our aim was to create technological advances that would enable us to use more Welsh … Continue reading
Chief statistician’s update: proposed indicators for the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 and feedback survey
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg The last Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) was published in 2019. As set out in our index update blog last year, an updated index will be published in late 2025 or early 2026. … Continue reading
What a content designer does in alpha
Kaitlin D’Avella explains what content designers do in the alpha stage of a project.
Defra group digital and data transformation strategy: how we’re making our services better
David Caldwell, Defra’s Deputy Director for Digital Transformation, provides an update on the work underway to transform digital services in Defra. It has been a while since we last shared what we’re doing to transform our services. I took up …
Creating an online form to apply for a county parish holding (CPH) number
Senior content designer Alice Wilson writes about how she worked with the Defra Forms team to create a more accessible online version of a PDF form for livestock keepers.
Latest update for StatsWales OData users
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg. We are working on a new and improved platform for StatsWales to keep up with technological updates and user needs. As a consequence, and as explained in our first blog, our OData service has not been … Continue reading