Mike Bracken appointed as HMG Executive Director for Digital
...run one of the first official Government data hack days after the alpha launch of data.gov.uk and later hosting the site’s full launch at the Guardian in January 2010. Mike...
It's all about the nodes and what lives at them
To say that no-one wants to visit a government website is an over-simplification. But it's certainly true that the compulsion is significantly different from what drives people to a destination website like BBC News or Facebook, or from something customer-facing …
Agile does work in government
Just as there are trends in technology, there are fashions in project management and some feel that agile is poorly suited to government and is just a fad. One of the principle objectives for this project was to demonstrate that …
Sketching (and some features that didn't quite make it)
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Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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We share a few of the early sketches from the alpha.gov.uk project, some of which include features that we either dropped when we realised they would work or haven't got around to implementing yet.
A brief overview of technology behind Alpha.gov.uk
The team share an overview of the technology used to develop Alpha.gov.uk.
Broadly, the visual language of Alpha.gov.uk
Read about the colour and typography used for Alpha.gov.uk which is a demonstration of what a single central Government site could be.
What's the deal with place names?
Alpha.gov.uk would work best if it knew where in the country its visitors are from. We'd love to get your feedback on our approach to this.
Why are we doing this?
Here's a reminder as to why it's so critical that GOV.UK offers UK citizens the best possible digital experience.
We are not the first to tread this path
...DEFRA Defra relaunched their website based on WordPress, an open source platform. You can read Simon Everest’s presentation here on how and why DEFRA made this choice. Alpha.gov.uk is built...
The power of the disinterested
One of the criticisms of the 'Alphagov' project I’m most aware of is the ‘who do they think they are’ approach to the team itself. The bulk of the team...
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