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Adding sustainability to the Government Design Principles

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We’re adding a new design principle for sustainability. This will help teams take responsibility and ownership for the sustainability of services.

Developing service patterns - reusable designs for building government services

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A laptop screen shows the Design System and the 'Apply' service pattern prototype.

This blog post describes what a service pattern is, how this one was made, how we think it could help design better services, and what we’d like to do next.

Get involved with Services Week 2025 

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Text: 'Services Week 2025' Government Digital and Data' on a yellow, blue and pink background.

Services Week is back 17 March to 21 March 2025 and the theme for 2025 is people-centred services. Designing effective public services starts with innovation, a strong understanding of what people need from services, and close collaboration between different teams …

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