Service patterns – examples, blog posts, recordings
Create Date:
19 Sept 2025
Last updated:
19 Sept 2025
Guidance
Examples of service patterns:
- Cross Gov ‘Apply’ service pattern (proof of concept)
- Cross Gov ‘Appointments’ service pattern (proof of concept)
- Essex County Council /Futuregov Service Patterns
- Essex County Council Service Patterns (github library mvp)
- GovStack service patterns
- the Projects by If design patterns catalogue
- Service and Design Patterns for Social Housing
- The Mental Health Patterns Library
Recent blogs:
- UK Gov Design Cross Gov service patterns (2025)
- Ben Holliday service patterns round up (2025)
- TPX Impact service patterns at services week (2025)
- Ministry of Justice Design Share & Reuse blog series (including service patterns) (2024-2025)
- TPX Impact & DWP service patterns (2023)
- EE/BT: How we are using Service Patterns to improve efficiency at BT/EE (2022)
- EE/BT: How Service Patterns are improving our user experience and efficiency at EE — Part II (2024)
- EE/BT: Delivering results. Early signals from our first Service Pattern (2025)
- GovStack– service patterns in the Service Gazette (2024)
Older blogs:
- UK Gov Design Better services with patterns and standards (2015)
- UK Gov Design Let’s talk about service patterns (2016)
- UK Gov Design 10 principles for service patterns (2018)
- Furturegov service patterns for local government (2017) Follow up 2 (2019) Follow up 3 (2019)
- Essex CountyCouncil Part1 Part2 Part3 (2019) and associated blog in the Service Gazette (2019)
- Ben Holiday how to use service patterns (2019)
Recordings: