A website wins the 2013 Design Awards
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2025 8:29 am
The London Design Museum has announced the 2013 Design of the Year Awards. This is a very prestigious award, colloquially known in the design world as the Oscars of design, which rewards the most innovative, useful and imaginative designs. There are various award categories: transport, architecture, fashion, product, furniture or graphics, and above them all, the first prize.
For the first time, the award has been given to a website, specifically the gov.uk website of the United Kingdom government. The website concentrates all the main existing websites of the English government, so that from a single website you can belgium telegram data make enquiries, carry out procedures, pay taxes. All of this in a very accessible content structure and a somewhat novel web design
. The objective of the website is to reduce administrative costs and make information available to all citizens.
As an anecdote about the web design, a 1960s typeface created by Margaret Calvert has been used, which gives the web design that classic British touch.
Beyond the evaluations on the design of the website, what is especially relevant is that the award was given to a website.
Diagnostics : Other improvement opportunities focused on what Google considers good web development practices , such as reducing Javascript execution time or ensuring that text is always visible even when using external fonts.
Approved audits : summary of the tests that our website has successfully passed .
The new version of Google PageSpeed Insights is now available to everyone through the web tool , as well as through the API. If you need to improve the performance of your website and don't know where to start, at La Teva Web we can help you.
For the first time, the award has been given to a website, specifically the gov.uk website of the United Kingdom government. The website concentrates all the main existing websites of the English government, so that from a single website you can belgium telegram data make enquiries, carry out procedures, pay taxes. All of this in a very accessible content structure and a somewhat novel web design
. The objective of the website is to reduce administrative costs and make information available to all citizens.
As an anecdote about the web design, a 1960s typeface created by Margaret Calvert has been used, which gives the web design that classic British touch.
Beyond the evaluations on the design of the website, what is especially relevant is that the award was given to a website.
Diagnostics : Other improvement opportunities focused on what Google considers good web development practices , such as reducing Javascript execution time or ensuring that text is always visible even when using external fonts.
Approved audits : summary of the tests that our website has successfully passed .
The new version of Google PageSpeed Insights is now available to everyone through the web tool , as well as through the API. If you need to improve the performance of your website and don't know where to start, at La Teva Web we can help you.