Exploring the user needs of technology governance
We’ve been interviewing colleagues across the civil service to establish a clear set of user needs as part of our review of the governance of technology provision in government. We’ve...
Helping claimants use digital services at Stevenage Jobcentre Plus
We know that great work is already going on inside and outside government to help people use digital services. We’re collecting examples to share as best practice and to learn from as we develop ideas for assisted digital support. We’ve …
Pencils
A couple of weeks ago the content team at GOV.UK won a black pencil at the D&AD awards. Alongside the Design of the Year award it’s been a lovely way...
Lasting Power of Attorney Beta
...legislation, so we weren’t even able to change how it looked, was laid out etc. This interaction between on and offline has been the biggest design challenge, so we’d recommend...
This week at GDS
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...well, Saudi Arabia, we met them. The good news is they’re all looking at us and what we’re doing. So we’re very much seen to be leading. I guess the...
Meet the Product analysts
...User research team and Procurement. Now it's the turn of the Product analysts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8Bd8Tza1Q Meet the Product analysts - video transcript Peter Jordan (Product analytics lead, Government Digital Service): The...
Insights into site search
Last week, Roo Reynolds wrote about how we’ve been improving site search on GOV.UK. Throughout the past couple of months we’ve been analysing our search data to find out more about how people are searching the site. Here are some …
Data Science in GDS
...products. GOV.UK Content Dashboard With this in mind, I created an internal dashboard primarily focused on the needs of product managers and content designers here in GDS. These people need...
This week at GDS
...exemplar, one they are doing off their own bat; a lot of ingestion of agile processes down there, so exciting stuff happening there. Just to give us a heads up...
How to cover rolling news events
From time to time, a news event can trigger a high volume of response from the government. It may involve information coming from a number of different departments, for example, or need frequent updates as a situation unfolds. The challenge …
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