I love metaphors, and use them a lot when trying to articulate my thinking, and recently I’ve been thinking a…
Read more on The Office for National Statistics is a bakery. Let me explain…For the past 12 months or so, the search term “gender pay gap” has consistently been one of the most…
Read more on Helping users get what they need from ONS bulletinsHere at ONS, we’re doing a lot of work on our statistical bulletins – the pages we publish alongside new…
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As you may have seen from Darren’s blog post, we are focussing on redesigning our statistical bulletins. To kick-start this work,…
Read more on Redesigning bulletins (my first, and Benjy’s second, Design Sprint)What does this image look like to you? It’s actually the quarterly Crime bulletin from January this year. As part…
Read more on Bulletin development – making pages ‘easier to read’Statistical bulletins are a critical part of what we do at the ONS. They are read by more people than…
Read more on Making better bulletins – let’s start with what we knowThis is the final post in our short series on using data for content design at ONS. My first blog…
Read more on How we’re using data dashboards for content design at ONSIn my last post, I wrote about why data is important to the way we create and present content at…
Read more on The data we use for content design at ONSAs content designer for the ONS website, I’m responsible for making sure that the content we publish meets the needs…
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