Our Co-op Experience Library is a reinvention of our design system. It’s got guidelines, tools and resources to help us create better customer and colleague experiences – things like online interactions, content guidelines, team activities and accessibility standards. It is…
The Co-op Experience Library is a collection of guidelines, tools and resources to help us create better customer experiences at Co-op. It’s the latest iteration of the Co-op Design System, and it’s for anyone working on products, services and communications at Co-op. And it’s…
The One web team exists to create a platform of tools and resources that all Co-op teams can build efficient, coherent websites on. In September, we reorganised the One web team to help us achieve our vision: Enable Co-op teams…
We’ve been quietly working on our forms guidance in our design system. It hasn’t been a quick process because the guidance we’ve added so far is based on research. And this takes time. Before we added the guidance, we: looked…
The Experience Foundations team recently updated our guidance on forms in our Experience Library. Originally, this piece of work was about making sure we included all the components we knew our community needed. But as we got further into the…
We’ve started to bring together our design-thinking process and some of the methods our delivery teams use throughout the lifecycle of a product or service. They live here on our Ways of working site, which is part of our design system. At the moment, the site includes 13 methods and they’re grouped like…
The Co-op design system includes design files – and the coded versions of those files – that help us build Co-op’s digital services quickly and to a good standard. It exists so we can create familiarity across Co‑op products…
We ran a series of inclusion and accessibility talks this week. They took place over 3 lunch breaks and they fell nicely into these themes: Being inclusive at Co-op Enabling accessibility in teams Getting accessibility ‘done‘ This post summarises what the speakers covered. We pre-recorded the talks and added captions afterwards which meant that we didn’t give live…
Last month, Accessibility Manchester ran a series of inclusion and accessibility talks. The line-up of speakers mainly came from Co-op Digital and you can read a summary here. We pre-recorded the talks, added captions, then showed them across 3 lunch-time sessions. We collected questions from attendees so we could give written (accessible) answers afterwards. Here…
The Co-op Digital blog was set up almost 7 years ago, alongside the digital arm of the Co-op. Since then we’ve matured. We’ve changed our name internally several times, and we now sit as part of the Digital Technology and…
