A week in the life of a census content designer
Earlier this year, I shadowed two senior content designers bringing Census 2021 to life. In the world of census, nothing…
Read more on A week in the life of a census content designer50 years on: are our digital releases more user-friendly than their print predecessors?
As an English literature graduate, I have always associated old, leather-bound books with great works of fiction. But when I…
Read more on 50 years on: are our digital releases more user-friendly than their print predecessors?Embedding ONS interactives in your website
Here’s a simple guide to embedding our interactive maps and charts and making them responsive, so they look their best…
Read more on Embedding ONS interactives in your websiteHow we build scrollytelling articles
TL; DR? Our scrollytelling articles are built with Svelte, Layer Cake and Mapbox GL JS (v1). You can view our…
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Scrollytelling is a new format for the digital content team, and one we are developing in the run up to…
Read more on What makes for a good scrollytelling article?Joining the Digital Publishing team and what have I learnt so far?
What does a Publishing Officer at the Office for National Statistics do? This is a question that I have been…
Read more on Joining the Digital Publishing team and what have I learnt so far?Redesigning bulletins (my first, and Benjy’s second, Design Sprint)
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)Making better bulletins – let’s start with what we know
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 knowThe past, present and future of ONS statistical bulletins
When my colleague Laura Churchill and I joined the ONS editorial team early in 2016, top of our to-do list…
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As a somewhat newbie to the Civil Service, when I first heard the words “ConCon6” it is not surprising that…
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