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Writing about statistics: why is shorter, better?

Categories: Bulletins, Content design

Here at ONS, we’re doing a lot of work on our statistical bulletins – the pages we publish alongside new…

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International Design in Government Conference: Day One

Categories: design, events
Conference gazette and name badge

A round-up of day one at the International Design in Government Conference, by Matt Weeks. This July I attended the…

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Redesigning bulletins (my first, and Benjy’s second, Design Sprint)

  • Rachel Price
  • June 22, 2018
Categories: Bulletins, design, publishing, User experience
Post-it saying Design Sprint starts at 10:30

As you may have seen from Darren’s blog post, we are focussing on redesigning our statistical bulletins. To kick-start this work,…

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What’s French for data visualisation?

  • Henry Lau
  • June 5, 2018
Categories: Data, dataviz, design, visual.ONS

Conferences are a great way to learn and view the wider field of your profession. Often in data visualisation, you…

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Bulletin development – making pages ‘easier to read’

  • Darren Waters
  • June 4, 2018
Categories: Bulletins, Communications, Content design, Data

What does this image look like to you? It’s actually the quarterly Crime bulletin from January this year.  As part…

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Why we have produced a Beta version of a new ONS API

Categories: API, beta, Data, opendata, website

Make data part of the web We have it written on stickers, we have it in our open data principles…

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Using the new Beta ONS API

Categories: API, beta, Data, opendata

This is a companion post to the one Andy has published outlining ‘why’ we have built the API, and a…

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Making better bulletins – let’s start with what we know

  • Darren Waters
  • May 17, 2018
Categories: Bulletins, design, Developments, Editorial, publishing, User experience

Statistical bulletins are a critical part of what we do at the ONS. They are read by more people than…

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How we’re using data dashboards for content design at ONS

Categories: Analytics, Bulletins, Content design

This is the final post in our short series on using data for content design at ONS. My first blog…

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Accessibility is user experience

  • Sarah Brooks
  • May 10, 2018
Categories: accessibility, design, eQ, User experience, user-research

I’m Sarah and I work in the Electronic Questionnaire (eQ) team within Survey Data Collection, at Office for National Statistics….

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