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Thank you Stephen Kelly

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 6 August 2014 - Categories: GDS team

...he has played a huge part in delivering the early stages of the UK Government's digital development. Follow Mike on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....

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This is what transformation looks like

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 5 August 2014 - Categories: Transformation
DVLA Hackathon Day

...can prototype a digital alternative and test it with real people in just a couple of days. Follow Mike on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....

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A new digital hub on the Tyne

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 1 August 2014 - Categories: Transformation

...in how people work, and how HMRC delivers digital government services. “There’s a phenomenal buzz here, and people are interested in what we’re doing. Not just from elsewhere in HMRC,...

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GOV.UK - it's all in the name

Posted by: Evans Bissessar, Posted on: 31 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
A local authority staff member using the updated naming guidelines

...official and can be trusted. The Central Office of Information (COI) had responsibility for managing the guidance until late 2011 when the Government Digital Service took over. The original guidance...

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Doing the hard work to make things simple

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation

Our fourth design principle is "Do the hard work to make it simple”. A team working at the Ministry of Justice have been putting that into action recently, trying to...

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The unsung heroes of voter registration

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 24 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation

Back in June, we launched the live phase of the new Register to vote digital service, number one on our list of transformation exemplars. I can't overstate the importance of...

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Meet the IT network team

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 23 July 2014 - Categories: GDS team, Technology

...growing organisation, that means that the network’s also growing. An exemplar for government Paul Collman We set out trying to build our network environment and build our Macs for a...

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Making things open, making things better

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 22 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK

...to read government documents people working in government to be able to share their work more easily (we think sharing is a good thing: one of our design principles is...

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What’s the design process at GDS?

Posted by: Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 July 2014 - Categories: Content design, GDS team, Service design
Sketchbook / browser / sketchbook / browser by Ben Terrett, on Flickr

...All of the designers can code or are learning to code. We call ourselves the Design Team because it's important to belong to a group with shared skills and experiences....

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Prison visit booking: using digital analytics to inform alpha development

Posted by: Jim Williams and Tony Duarte, Posted on: 15 July 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Transformation
Prison visit booking: using digital analytics to inform alpha development

...visit booking team used their digital analytics to improve the service design was by uploading the number of slots selected to their digital analytics tool using whats called a custom...

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