You might think that we’ve gone a little quiet since we published the Open Standards Principles last November, but we’ve been working hard on getting together the processes and the people to lead on some of the open standards challenges …
This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK. There are lots of new features and services but a big focus for our team has been building the new Foreign Travel Advice pages. Foreign Travel …
...clearer, faster Worldwide takes over from some long established and well-used sites and attempts to tackle a number of challenges troubling those sites by making them simpler, clearer and faster....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlJwPJ7Nyw This week GOV.UK is up for the Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum and the exhibition opened on Wednesday, the Department for Culture Media and Sport...
One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is "Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?" In the spirit of "publish, don't send" this blog post sets out …
...managers and their teams. It also introduced project pages where service managers could record their progress and share their learnings: Guides and toolkits were stored on Github, then synced into...
...the site to be responsive to different screen sizes, using open standards. They launched the beta early, despite knowing it still had rough edges, because nothing beats real feedback from...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUoQgUswXGo A busy end to the week. We announced the beta release of the Digital by Default Service Standard and the changes to the CIO profession yesterday. We also had...
...focus on users runs throughout the report, "A design approach to public services starts not with service providers but with citizens, customers and service users." Lots of the examples given...
...to help build services that meet the standard. What good looks like The standard will be applied to all large services from April 2014. The point of the standard is...
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