Flood digital design team

29/03/2022

In response to user feedback, you can now view detailed observed rainfall data for the last 5 days on our Check for flooding service. View your nearby levels here - https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk

16/02/2022

Two big storms heading our way over the next few days. Don't forget to visit Check for flooding for up to date information and advice https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk

13/10/2021

The new check-for-flooding service has gone live!

You can visit the new service here: https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/

It's been built to meet the needs of our diverse range of users, the service has a new design and navigation that makes it simpler and quicker to find information. It improves accessibility, includes new features and provides far more impact information so that communities and individuals can be better informed about their flood risk.

Thank you to all the communities and users that helped the team design the new service, we will continue to develop it and add more features based on your feedback.

10/08/2021

We want to make it easier to get flood warnings and improve the messages you receive. We are keen to talk to people who have an interest in flooding. Help us by joining our panel. https://defragroup.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_esQDOt68fm7fPWS

16/06/2021

The Check for flooding beta service has some big improvements!

Latest updates include rain gauge information on the map, new guidance on station pages, improved station filtering and navigation and an improved flood outlook giving a more localised flood forecast for 5 days.

Take a look: /check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk

17/02/2021

We (the Environment Agency and Defra Flood Digital team) have been engaging with users to improve our Check for flooding beta service are looking for volunteers to help us with some user research on a rainfall feature we are developing

We only need 30 to 45 minutes of your time, between 9am and 4pm until Tuesday 23rd February 2021. If you are interested, please respond by sending an email to [email protected] with the Subject: Rain Gauge Research Participation

Over the last year, over 8 million people have used the existing flood service, so your feedback really will help improve the service for millions of people.

During these unpredictable times, we want to continue to help people who suffer from flooding and we hope that you are willing to take part in flood research.

Examples of the prototype to be tested for rainfall intensity measurements are below

https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/find-location

10/02/2021

The new check-for-flooding service is now available! A link to the Beta service can be found from the home page of the flood information service. You can visit the new service here: https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/

Built with users and designed to meet their needs, the beta service aims to bring disparate products together, enhance navigation, improve accessibility and provide far more impact information so that communities and individuals can be better informed about their flood risk.

Thank you to all the communities that helped the team design the new service. The team is currently user testing rainfall gauges and hope to add new products in 2021. If you have the previous version bookmarked, please save the new link.

19/01/2021

We're the team that support the flood information service on GOV.UK and we've been working on a new design of the service called Check for flooding. It’s currently a ‘beta’ service. This means it’s the first version of it.

We’re designing the new service with input from flood wardens and community flood groups. It aims to bring together all the information you need in one place with more detail. We hope this helps you to understand your risk of flooding more quickly. We wanted to make this available to communities ahead of Storm Christoph.

You can try the new service and leave feedback at: https://check-for-flooding.prd.defra.cloud/

It might sometimes be unavailable if we’re making changes but you can still use the existing flood information service on GOV.UK at any time.

26/08/2020

How the flood information service is being transformed to be more user-centred by designing it end-to-end, front-to-back, and for every channel.

A blog for people who are transforming services across the public sector

30/06/2020

Today, we made an update to the way we share live flood warning information with other organisations. It will now be shared near instantly, removing the previous 6 minute delay. This means we can now better share our info through real-time channels such as social media, and provide direct links to the Flood Information Service on GOV.UK in the text messages we issue.

30/04/2020

Flood Warning or Flood Alert, Which one in your opinion means HIGHER risk/severity:
https://twitter.com/Sissi_Grant/status/1255834522979045377?s=20

“Help the Environment Agency understand your interpretation of risk! 🌊⚠️🚨 Which one in your opinion means HIGHER risk/severity: (pls RT) ”