Paul Annett – GOV.UK

Together with Webdagene, we hosted a talk by Paul Annett at Mesh.

Annett had recently joined the design team at Twitter. Before that he was Creative Lead at the UK Government Digital Service, which he joined in March 2011 to build the Alphagov prototype before working on GOV.UK, launched in November 2012. He had designed websites for more than a decade, for clients including Tesco, WWF, Sony BMG, Pearson and Harrods.

Using GOV.UK as his example, Annett talked about design principles for reaching a mainstream audience, accessibility in practice, and what was learned from testing transactions with inexperienced web users. Netlife Research and Webdagene sponsored drinks after the talk. Annett gave the same talk at Webdagene two days later.

Speakers

• Paul Annett, Twitter; formerly Creative Lead, Government Digital Service (UK) — GOV.UK

The original event page is on meetup.com.