In some cases it’s not appropriate for teams to have GOV.UK branding.
But they all start with it by default, if we can’t make a better guess.
We should be more explicit about this to reduce the number of teams
sending emails with the wrong branding.
We get a few tickets at the moment where people are asking for the
branding they already have.
We think that playing back the name of the branding on this page should
reduce how often that happens.
Letting people input a bit of free text should reduce the amount of back
and forth we have to do over support tickets when setting up someone’s
branding.
If something else is the only option then we don’t show the radio button
at all and have just the free text input on the page (not behind a
progressive disclosure).
Users who work in local government can’t have GOV.UK branding on their
emails. And only those working for Companies House (for example) can
request the Companies House branding.
This commit adds:
- new choices of email branding, which offer the name of the branding,
rather than the style
- logic to filter this list to only the applicable options, based on
what we know about the user, service and organisation
This is a change from the previous approach which put the onus on users
to figure out the style of branding they wanted, when we might already
know that a lot of the options weren’t available to them, or would be
inconsistent with the branding of other services in their organisation.
The Design System has standardised on back links being at the top of the
page, decorated with a small text-coloured arrow.
I think this makes more sense than having them at the bottom, because it
suggests, in some way, being able to go back before commiting to any of
the forms on the page. Whereas the things at the bottom of the page
should be performing actions on what’s in the page.
The reason for making this change now is that it de-clutters the area
around the green buttons. This was presenting a design challenge where
multiple levels of interaction were happening in the same form. Moving
these back links to the top of the page should mean that, in these
complicated forms, there’s one fewer thing to compete for the user’s
attention.
I’ve componentised this into a `page_header` macro so that the change is
easier to roll out and maintain.
This will stop us repeatedly forgetting to add `novalidate` and
`autocomplete='off'` to our forms (which is how most of them are set
up).
It uses sensible defaults, based on how we most-commonly configure
forms:
- most of our forms are `post`ed (but this can be overridden)
- `autocomplete` should only be enabled where it makes sense, otherwise
it’s more annoying than useful (but this can be overriden)
- we should never be using HTML5 form validation because our own error
styles and messages are better
At the moment branding is an undocumented feature. We get a bunch of
support tickets from teams asking its possible.
This commit:
- lets people know it’s possible, and what the options are
- is the first step towards making this process as self-service as
possible
In some cases we will be able to infer a user’s organisation from there
email address, and Google image search their logo. So the experience for
them is that they press a button and government just sorts it out for
you (also known as "the dream").
In other cases we will have to get back to people asking for a copy of
their logo, or to find out about their service, but this is what we have
to do at the moment anyway.
