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50 years on: are our digital releases more user-friendly than their print predecessors?

Jessica Green
March 8, 2022

Categories: accessibility, blog, Content design, design, Editorial, history, publishing, User experience, website

As an English literature graduate, I have always associated old, leather-bound books with great works of fiction. But when I…

Writing for our users

Catherine Jones
March 4, 2022

Categories: Content design, Editorial, User experience

As a Content Design team for the Office for National Statistics, we are frequently asked to give advice on how…

Embedding ONS interactives in your website

Daniel Wainwright
February 15, 2022

Categories: dataviz, design, publishing, visual.ONS

Screenshot of subnational indicators tool

Here’s a simple guide to embedding our interactive maps and charts and making them responsive, so they look their best…

Reflections on content design at ONS

Darren Waters
December 21, 2021

Categories: accessibility, Content design, people, website

In May 2019 our Head of Content Design Kieran Forde wrote a blog post: Five ways content designers are changing…

Making hyperlinks better

Katie Greenhalf
November 30, 2021

Categories: accessibility, Content design, Editorial

In the world of web content, there’s a common misconception that accessibility refers to people with specific needs, like those who use screen readers or other…

Why less interactivity can be more

Peter Broad
August 19, 2021

Categories: Data

When writing publications for our website, our analysis teams are often keen to show as much of our data as…

Bring us your problems rather than solutions

Beth Brown
July 8, 2021

Categories: blog, product

There’s an age old saying that most of us will be familiar with – “bring me solutions, not problems.” It’s often…

How we build scrollytelling articles

Ahmad Barclay
June 2, 2021

Categories: Census, dataviz, design, frontend, publishing

TL; DR? Our scrollytelling articles are built with Svelte, Layer Cake and Mapbox GL JS (v1). You can view our…

What makes for a good scrollytelling article?

Erin Vickery
May 24, 2021

Categories: Census, dataviz, publishing

Scrollytelling is a new format for the digital content team, and one we are developing in the run up to…

Finding your tribe: Data journalism voices from NICAR

ONS Digital
April 1, 2021

Categories: blog, Data, Editorial, training

Not so long ago, data journalism was regarded in many newsrooms as a bit ‘sciencey’, niche and nerdy and certainly…