Weekend links: celebrating International Women's Day
...with Women Techmakers today between 3pm and 6pm for the Women Techmakers Summit at Campus London. GDS's Head of Content Design, Sarah Richards, shares her thoughts on women in technology....
User research - a day in the life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIDFIsfsFeA This week, Cath Richardson and Jon Rimmer talk about some of the user research methods we are using at GDS to help us understand how people use our online...
Every day we write the book: an incomplete history of civil service authors for World Book Day
Today is World Book Day, so we thought it would be fun to look back through history and find out about some civil servants who dabbled as authors on the side.
New Transport for GOV.UK
You may not have noticed, but we recently changed the bit that says 'GOV.UK' in the black banner that appears across the website.
Guest post: A year on GOV.UK - HMRC's experience
...pages on GOV.UK. The sites are very different so it's not always possible to make a direct page-to-page mapping, but we can get pretty close. Content Old HMRC site* New...
Report a misleading website to search engines
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Government services have been getting a growing number of complaints from people who feel misled by websites which charge for access to public services that are either free or much...
Weekend links: Oscars news, style guidance, red lines and more
Got a link you think we’ll love? Share it with us on Twitter: @GDSTeam Next week is the seventh annual National Apprenticeship Week. Follow the hashtag #NAW2014 throughout the week...
What kind of things do people ask?
...contacts. It has come down almost every week since launch. You're making the improvements that make it less necessary for people to actually contact us, that they can just get...
The end of the beginning for GOV.UK
A project team in GDS is working to make sure GOV.UK can meet the needs of all its users, including specialists and professionals, when it becomes a fully-realised “single domain for government” later this year. Neil Williams, who leads the …
Red lines for IT procurement
In January, the government published some ‘red lines’ for IT contracts. At the time, Bill Crothers, the government Chief Procurement Officer, described the reasoning behind them. These rules apply to all central government, and should encourage competition whilst delivering value …
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