This week at GDS
...high of 6.13m visitors in the last week of February, which will only increase as more departments move across to GOV.UK. Tom Loosemore's blog post on whether we should use...
The first 100 days - how are we doing?
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GOV.UK
...Government Service Design Manual to find out what services need to do to achieve the Digital by Default Service Standard. (And feel free to feed back to us where you...
This week at GDS
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GDS team
...also been strengthened with the addition of 15 new policies. Four more departments have joined GOV.UK in one week, leaving 6 to go. Three events of note: one for large,...
Designs of the Year
...code is on GitHub. Although we made this for the exhibition we’re already thinking of other ways we could use it, given that it’s web-based. It could be a great...
Beating performance anxiety
...progress in three areas: improving the user’s experience of the service, reducing running costs, and shifting people towards using the digital channel. The GDS design principles provided us with a...
Digital Britain Two
...moving in the right direction. But it’s also a helpful reminder of the work we still need to do to support those who are less able to use online services....
Welcoming four new departments to Inside Government
This week we have welcomed four new departments to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK: Department for International Development, Department of Health, Home Office and Wales Office.
As seen from the Department...
The move of web content from the Department of Health (DH) to GOV.UK has been a relatively calm experience for the DH team. It’s been extremely busy and quite intense at times but I only had one day of actual …
Licensing on GOV.UK
Applying for licences is rarely a fun activity and this applies equally to the authorities responsible for processing them. When you wanted a licence extension for your birthday party in...
Making better choices for the technology we use
Getting a new message out This week the IT Reform team within GDS released new guidance to government departments and suppliers around the technology we use. We've done this to make sure our technology doesn't end up becoming inflexible, overdesigned, …
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