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by oceankid 1539 days ago
I've been building prototypes with this. It is everything good web design should be– UI with good contrast, legible type and accessibility patterns.

My only gripe is perhaps if their teams made example pages from their own use cases– sub-nav from the components page, charts/references from their Covid dashboards.

Great work overall!

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Not sure if you used the Prototype Kit, but that’s another extremely useful product from GDS: https://govuk-prototype-kit.herokuapp.com/docs
Would love to see how some prototypes look with it if you want to share any :)
Some departments open source all their work, if you're interested in browsing real apps built to GDS standards. I previously contracted at the Office of National Statistics, and it was the case there that everything was built in the open on github. For instance this django app runs all online surveys for the ONS, including the national census! https://github.com/ONSdigital/eq-survey-runner
These are sort of how they started in an afternoon. Then folks were easily able build on top...

https://imgur.com/a/XARRn1n