GOV.UK template unification

As GOV.UK was grown organically, each of the many content format’s templates were inconsistent, with navigation and metadata appearing in different places and with slightly different designs across the site.

In order to create a consistent navigation experience, we needed to unify the layouts of the pages. We audited the existing pages and components, documented commonalities and edge cases and used this to create a single componentised layout that would work across all formats.