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 designerData visualisation producers – where are they now?
The ONS Digital Content team is currently recruiting data visualisation producers. You can view the adverts for the senior data…
Read more on Data visualisation producers – where are they now?50 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?Writing for our users
As a Content Design team for the Office for National Statistics, we are frequently asked to give advice on how…
Read more on Writing for our usersEmbedding 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 websiteReflections on content design at ONS
In May 2019 our Head of Content Design Kieran Forde wrote a blog post: Five ways content designers are changing…
Read more on Reflections on content design at ONSMaking hyperlinks better
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…
Read more on Making hyperlinks betterWhy less interactivity can be more
When writing publications for our website, our analysis teams are often keen to show as much of our data as…
Read more on Why less interactivity can be moreBring us your problems rather than solutions
There’s an age old saying that most of us will be familiar with – “bring me solutions, not problems.” It’s often…
Read more on Bring us your problems rather than solutionsHow 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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