Plan and manage content
Use this guidance to understand the principles of designing user-centred content for GOV.UK.
This guidance includes:
- the principles of content design
- how to identify user needs and write a user need
- how you should plan new GOV.UK content, including where it will go and how to help users find it
- how to find and manage your existing GOV.UK content
- how to approach accessibility
- the standards for GOV.UK URLs
- when you should consider adding translated versions of our content
- how to group content into topics, collections and step-by-step pages
- when to withdraw or unpublish content, and when content goes into ‘history mode’