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All crayons left behind - building digital services, not websites for rural payments

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 22 December 2014 - Categories: Transformation
All crayons left behind - building digital services, not websites for rural payments

...on users. From edge cases to hedge cases One of the best things about working in an agile way is that we can iterate on what we’ve built to better...

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Finishing what we started - transition to GOV.UK

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 19 December 2014 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

...government publishing platform. Here’s a film about the works that’s been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If-lPm57hD4&feature=youtu.be Join the conversation on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts. Transcript: Transitioning 300+...

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Revealing the hidden side of transformation

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 17 December 2014 - Categories: Transformation
Magnus Falk and Mark Evans

...a bit like a university campus. It was built to process enormous quantities of paperwork - because of course, that's how things used to be done. But things are changing...

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A big week for Companies House

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 12 December 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation
Companies House team

...designed summary of public information about that company: its status, registered address, names of directors and secretaries, and a list of filing dates. It’s an impressive start on an important...

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Code Club at the Palace

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 10 December 2014 - Categories: Technology
D5 London

...writing his first piece of code, and school children visiting No 10 to take part in the #HourofCode event. Not to be outdone, here's Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude...

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Code Club at GDS

Posted by: Jordan Hatch, Posted on: 8 December 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Code Club at GDS

...Once seen as the exclusive domain of the stereotypical 'bedroom coder', it's great that the last few years has made code more accessible than ever before. Learning to code isn't...

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Our GDS user research lab is 6 months old

Posted by: Kate Towsey, Posted on: 3 December 2014 - Categories: User research
GDS user research lab, observation room filled with observers - Kate Towsey

When we were designing and building our user research lab, we learned a lot about how best to build one. During the past 6 months of running our lab, we've learned even more.

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Simpler Carer's Allowance digital service now live

Posted by: Steve Wood - Service Manager for GovWifi, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 November 2014 - Categories: Transformation

...other strife that’s going on in their lives, being able to claim Carer’s Allowance should be the least of their worries. Kathryn Baxendale, Subject Matter Expert Carer’s Allowance Digital Service...

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How we organise our film production team

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 21 November 2014 - Categories: GDS team

...camera, recording the sound, setting up the lights and designing motion graphics, editing footage is a skilled job that can take years to learn. Our camera people double as editors...

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Digital Marketplace: building a digital by default service

Posted by: Ivanka Majic, Posted on: 19 November 2014 - Categories: Digital Marketplace, Service design
Digital Marketplace

...its design and build. All new or redesigned digital services being built in government need to meet the digital by default service standard. Services processing or likely to process over...

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