Service standard - how’s it going?
The digital by default service standard went fully live in April. That means that, in line with the Government Digital Strategy, all new and redesigned public facing services have to...
Vertical campfires: our user research walls
...some of ours. Carer’s Allowance: mapping the service transaction Many teams use their wall to map out end-to-end transactions for a service. The Carer’s Allowance team have done just that....
Say the dot
Back in May, we wrote a short post explaining why we write the name of our website as GOV.UK, in capitals, and the URL as www.gov.uk, so that people know it’s a URL
5 live - Civil Claims
...Student finance and Lasting power of attorney. Image by Boyce Duprey on a Creative Commons license What the service is Civil claims are a way for the public to solve...
100 technical hires
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...starts at Student Loans Company next week and was Managing Director and CIO at BT. Office of National Statistics has taken on Laura Dewis, Deputy Director Digital Publishing, who was...
How sharing helps us improve digital services
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...in government, but I'm starting to see it happen all over the place. There are some lovely examples of good sharing happening at the Registered Traveller exemplar project at the...
You can now renew a patent online
...the Intellectual Property Office in Newport, which is part of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. Follow Emma on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....
Helping government find user needs with analytics
Over the last couple of months we’ve run search engine optimisation and analytics workshop sessions for content designers in government departments and agencies.
Our first video production workshop
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...front of three different cameras, so we could compare the footage from each. The cameras were, from cheap to expensive: a smartphone with an external microphone (iPhone 4 & Rode...
Inspiring teenagers: getting schools to beat bogus websites
...workshops that allowed these young people to experience what it is like to work at GDS. The workshop was based on GDS's #StartAtGOVUK campaign. We asked the teens to design...
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