Sharing the news about GOV.UK
...What have we done? We’ve been working with people from Directgov, BusinessLink and across most Departments on communications plans for the move to GOV.UK and we’ve been finding out what...
The right words for the job
Hens and chickens, or breeders and meat? Part of a GDS content designer's role is to choose the best words to explain what a web page is trying to say. It's got to be easy to understand, simple to find …
Identity assurance for local government services
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Amanda Derrick - former Strategic and Service Development Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK One Login
...register and identify themselves to their local authorities online. Findings Our findings indicate a varied landscape within local government. A number of local authorities (LAs) are looking at the market...
How is GOV.UK performing?
Last week our new digital service GOV.UK moved out of public beta and replaced the two main government websites, Directgov and Business Link. As my colleague Mike Bracken explained at the time, GOV.UK is focussed on the needs of users, …
From user needs to content - what’s the story?
We’ve already written about how we’ve worked to identify user needs for GOV.UK, so now I’d like to explain a bit more about what happens next - how does a need become published content or a tool on the site?
This week at GDS
...digital landscape for publication, drawing out the implications and thinking about how we release it. The Inside Government team released their detailed guidance format - unleashing 412 detailed guides from...
GOV.UK - One day in
GOV.UK is now into its second day as the new place to find government services and information, and I’d like to share some highlights from our first 24 hours.
Why GOV.UK matters: A platform for a digital Government
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
On Wednesday October 17th 2012, our new digital service www.gov.uk moved out of public beta development to replace the two main government websites, Directgov and Business Link. It is the...
Meeting the needs of businesses
...to Business Link, three main categories of user need emerged. What businesses are looking for Many people thinking about starting a business find their way to the Business Link website...
The software we've used to build GOV.UK
We’ve relied on a lot of software to help us build GOV.UK. From tracking the work we need to do in each sprint to managing the logs produced on our servers, we couldn’t build it without using tools that a …
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