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What else to Consider

Before the service goes live, you’ll also need to make sure:

  • you’re securing the service’s information
  • you’ve got appropriate metrics in place to measure the success of the service, based on what you’ve learned during beta
  • the service meets accessibility requirements you’re able to maintain uptime and availability and monitor the status of the service
  • you’re able to continue with vulnerability and penetration testing
  • you’re able to continue testing service performance
  • you’re able to maintain quality assurance
  • you have addressed, or have plans to address, any pain points that might lead to people being excluded

If you’ve created any new design patterns - or learned anything useful about an existing design pattern - you should share what you’ve learned through the GOV.UK Design System.

When you need to retire your service

You need to retire your service if you find out users do not need it anymore - or that so few users need it that it’s not cost-effective to keep running it in its current form.

Work in Progress!

This site is a work in progress and any opinions contained here are intended to spark discussion within each discipline's community of practice.

Last update: 2023-07-26
Created: 2023-07-26