Podcast: How to start a career in tech
Podcast: How to start a career in tech
Three developers from the Government Digital Service discuss common misconceptions about tech careers, and how to get started.
Join the user research panel for GDS products and services
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Andy Parker, Senior User Researcher, GDS, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay, Government as a Platform, Service design, User research
We’re launching a new way for civil and public servants to help us iterate the Government Digital Service’s digital products and services.
GDS is 10: we’re ready for our next chapter
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Tom Read - Chief Executive Officer, Government Digital Service and The GDS Team, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills, Transformation
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is turning 10. Watch as team members share - in 10 seconds or less - what excites them most about what’s coming next.
One Login for Government: December 2021 update
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Natalie Jones - Director of Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Identity Assurance, Service design, User research
In this blogpost, we address the GDS approach to identity checking and our delivery plan for a new system - Natalie Jones, Director of Digital Identity explains.
Podcast: Maps in services
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The GDS Team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Government as a Platform, Podcast, Service design
Colleagues from the GOV.UK Design System and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs discuss how teams can help make maps in public services better.
Why we think online HTML forms are usually better than document-based forms in government
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Iain Boyd - Engagement Lead, Government Digital Service, Harry Vos - Senior Product Manager, Government Digital Service and Hannah Cooper - Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Content design, Transformation
From an initial comparison of different forms technologies, we believe more teams should be using online HTML forms.
Podcast: How our Site Reliability Engineers migrated GOV.UK Pay
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The GDS Team, Posted on:
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Categories:
Government as a Platform, Podcast, Transformation, Ways of working
Wondered how to migrate a 24/7 product to a serverless platform? We chat about initial user research, developing DevOps skills and the benefits of GDS's approach to this type of tech project.
We’ve created a new guide for content design recruitment
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Jane van de Ban - Lead Content Designer for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, People and skills
GDS is a great place to be a content designer. We’ve written a recruitment guide to help you make your application.
Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha
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Richard Walker - Product Manager, GDS, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK, Identity Assurance, Service design, User research
Find out what the team building government’s new single sign-on solution learnt about prototyping, inclusion, apps and more during its digital identity alpha.
Podcast: Collecting information from users
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The GDS Team, Posted on:
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People and skills, Podcast, Service design, Transformation, User research, Ways of working
Struggle to collect information from your users? Hear from the GDS team that’s trying to make every form on GOV.UK accessible, easy to use and quick to process.
Working at GDS as a developer
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Pea Tyczynska - Developer for Government as a Platform (GaaP), Government Digital Service, Alex Wilson - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service and Kelvin Gan - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GDS team, People and skills, Ways of working
Coding, collaboration and community - find out what it’s like to be a developer at GDS.
Related content and links
Government’s authentication and digital identity solution
Read GDS’s recent blog post for an update on our one login for government programme, including live beta, onboarding and feature development.
Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.