https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/design/ Recent content in Design on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/25/art-of-the-possible/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/25/art-of-the-possible/ ‘Walrus rainbow vomit’ is a sentence I’d never thought I’d type (via Giphy) Note I later learnt about {colorfindr} by David Zumbach, which can extract colours from images, provide composition details and generate palettes. Check it out. tl;dr I used the {magick} package in R to map an image’s colours to their nearest match from a simplified palette, then quantified how much of the image was covered by each colour in that palette. https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/12/accessible-accessibility/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/12/accessible-accessibility/ The accessibility empathy lab at the Government Digital Services building Digital accessibility I wrote about an accessibility workshop at the recent Sprint 18 conference. I’ve since been to a more in-depth workshop with Government Digital Service (GDS), who have just launched the latest version of their ‘testing for accessibility’ guidance in the Service Manual and also the GOV.UK Design System, which contains reusable GOV.UK styles, patterns and components with accessibility in mind. https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/05/12/accessibility-workshop-at-sprint18/ Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/05/12/accessibility-workshop-at-sprint18/ Sprinting Sprint events are a chance for the government digital, data, design and technology community to: look back on the work we’ve been doing to transform government and to look forward at what we need to do Kevin Cunnington (@kevincunnington), Director General of the Government Digital Service (GDS), outlined this in a recent blog post. This year’s major themes were transformation, innovation and collaboration. The event was held at the Southbank Centre and Royal Festival Hall in London, with 40 speakers, 19 workshops and over 700 delegates representing 40 departments and agencies.