A place for services within digital prevention services to document their design decisions and research learnings.

See the guide for details on how to contribute.

There are posts on:

• why we write design histories
• what to include in a design history
• how to publish a design history entry

There is also a sample post template and a guide to using Markdown.

If you need to add a new service, follow how to add a new service.

You don’t have to do this to contribute, you can use GitHub or Codespaces, but if you want to you can.

1. Run npm install to install pre-requisites
2. Run npm start to build the design history site and serve it

Once you have a post you want to publish, make a pull request on this repo with your suggested change.

Once it is merged the updated design history will automatically deploy with your post.

For issues relating to the NHS Digital prevention services design history, contact Ed Horsford, Frankie Roberto or Ralph Hawkins.

For bug reports, feedback or suggestions you can submit a new issue.

The design history uses the NHS Design System and the Eleventy static site generator with the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin.