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Shipping new formats: the GOV.UK ‘international trade’ release

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 8 August 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK, Technology

...of the complexity for people needing to look up EU commodity codes and other customs information when importing or exporting goods. We’ll be explaining more about this tool in a...

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Transactions - finding the stories hidden in the data

Posted by: Clifford Sheppard, Posted on: 7 August 2012 - Categories: Data

...Government services? Were high-volume services more likely to be a certain type than low-volume services? Did some Departments specialise in particular service types? Findings Taking a sample of services, we...

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From Solr to elasticsearch

Posted by: Rob Young, Posted on: 3 August 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK, Technology

Search is right at the centre of GOV.UK. It’s the main focus of the homepage and it appears in the corner of every single page. Many of our recent and upcoming apps such as licence finder also rely heavily on …

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Bank Holiday story - is it really simpler, clearer, faster?

Posted by: Peter Jordan, Posted on: 31 July 2012 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

At GDS we iterate. One of the key contributions to that iteration is the post change checking to make sure that the users needs truly have been met and that the rules of the game have not changed. Peter Jordan, …

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‘Simpler, clearer, faster’ at the Driving Standards Agency

Posted by: John Ploughman, Posted on: 30 July 2012 - Categories: Digital engagement, GOV.UK, Transformation

...the Driving Standards Agency explained how GDS values inspired a re-evaluation of their content, and the big difference it has made to their audience. Simpler, clearer, faster. Ever since I...

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What I've learned (so far) doing product management in government

Posted by: Roo Reynolds, Posted on: 27 July 2012 - Categories: Transformation

I was recently invited to give a short talk at Agile Teacamp, an event where people come to learn about and share their experiences with agile software development. They're friendly and informal events held over a cup of tea in a department store …

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Data Driven Delivery

Posted by: Richard Sargent, Posted on: 24 July 2012 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

Every year, central and local government serve citizens and businesses through one and a half billion transactions.

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EVL is not evil

Posted by: Carolyn Williams, Posted on: 24 July 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation

...services - amongst them the government’s flagship digital service. EVL Carolyn I started work on digital services in 2003/04 when things were very different in the digital space. Electronic Vehicle...

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Public reading stages - a second iteration

Posted by: Steph Gray, Posted on: 18 July 2012 - Categories: Transformation

Last Thursday the second iteration of a tool to allow comments on Bills passing through the House of Commons process went live. Steph Gray from Helpful Technology explains why a second iteration was needed and how putting users needs first …

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Iterate. Then iterate again.

Posted by: Alex Torrance, Posted on: 18 July 2012 - Categories: Content design, GOV.UK

After we launched the iteration of GOV.UK two weeks ago we received a lot of feedback via Twitter and email regarding the changes we had made to the visual design of the site. Alex Torrance, User Experience Designer at GDS …

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