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GOV.UK Step by step navigation

Documents step by step navigation for end-to-end journeys with a specific start and end, multiple guidance or transaction links, useful order, standalone and sidebar presentations, expandable numbered steps, tasks, costs, and and/or branches, while excluding transactional services.

Read with a purpose

What this source can teach

Use this source to study a complete public-service task and the guidance that supports its implementation.

  1. Start with the original. Open the source and find the guidance or example relevant to your task.
  2. Trace the connection. Use the claim notes below to see how this site applies the source to specific patterns.
  3. Check the setting. Compare the source's platform, people, and constraints with your own decision.

Pattern Decisions This Source Supports

Pattern Supported decision Required contract Claim note
Process list / step-by-step navigation Choose a process list when users need an ordered overview of an end-to-end journey that combines guidance, service links, offline actions, or external tasks. Activating a step expands or collapses its supporting task content without changing the user's transaction state. GOV.UK defines step-by-step navigation for end-to-end journeys with specific start and end points, linked guidance or transactions, useful order, standalone and contextual presentations, and explicit transactional-service exclusions.

Evidence Role

This source is treated as service-manual evidence. Its value comes from the specific claims and setting described above.

Publisher: GOV.UK Design System. Last checked: .

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