April 2012
Tom Morris: Trawling the archives with the ghost... →
tommorrisdotorg:
I’ve just been chatting to someone about the sad departing of Ceefax and Teletext, and the various memories we have of these centralized, TV-based Internet forerunners. I had a look at the Wikipedia article on Ceefax, and it’s got sourcing problems. Having recently been given access to …
UK Government Digital Service: Design Principles →
decodering:
Listed below are our design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far. These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.
Start with needs*
Do less
Design with data
Do the hard work to make it simple
Iterate. Then iterate again.
Build for inclusion
Understand context
Build digital services, not websites
Be consistent, not uniform
Make things open:...
“As an experiment, the Guardian attempted to shoot video footage of the O2 arena...”
– O2 Olympic venue in row over security against legal photography | Sport | The Guardian (via iamdanw)
