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Why GOV.UK Verify matters

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 23 September 2015 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login
Programme Director Janet Hughes talking about GOV.UK Verify

...and driving a market, and looking in and acting as one government. Well done to them. Follow GOV.UK Verify on Twitter and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....

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My new favourite form. Really.

Posted by: Caroline Jarrett, Posted on: 22 September 2015 - Categories: GOV.UK, User research
Photo of £1000 cash on top of a 2011 HMRC tax return form

...we’re discussing over 100 of them on our design patterns hackpad, and we only publish a pattern on our Service Manual when we’ve got plenty of evidence from user research...

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Learning and doing together

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 September 2015 - Categories: People and skills, Transformation

...is a 12-day introduction to digital delivery. It will prepare anyone who’ll be working on a digital project at DWP in the future for working in an agile, user-focused multidisciplinary...

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Cambridge coding club for girls

Posted by: Tatiana Soukiassian, Posted on: 16 September 2015 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Flappy birds game

Last month I was invited to give a talk as at the Cambridge University Computer Science lab.

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It’s not about us, it’s about collaboration

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 10 September 2015 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills, Transformation
Photo of a laptop covered in GDS stickers - including a "Look Sideways" sticker

...their vital role in the future of government as a platform as Pete Herlihy wrote just the other day, the status tracking and notifications platform team is working together with...

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Building a platform to host digital services

Posted by: Anna Shipman and Carl Massa, Posted on: 8 September 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms

Right now, hosting services is one of the most time-consuming barriers for new digital services, and usually involves duplicating work done elsewhere. On the Government Platform as a Service team we’re working on solving that.

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Digital in local government: a case study from Camden Council

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 7 September 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms

There’s huge potential for digital transformation in local government as well as national government.

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Registers: authoritative lists you can trust

Posted by: Paul Downey, Posted on: 1 September 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms
Paul Downey illustration of registers

We’ve mentioned registers a few times on this blog, most recently in relation to the work of the Land Registry building on the steel thread, the brilliant new Companies House public beta, and their importance for building platforms.

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Gov, where’s my stuff?

Posted by: Pete Herlihy - former Lead Product Manager for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 26 August 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms
An early prototype notification shown on a mobile phone screen.

We want to see how platforms can improve the way people communicate with government. As part of this, we’re starting discovery work on status tracking and notifications.

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Common Technology Services: technology is a tool, not a barrier

Posted by: Magnus Falk, Posted on: 25 August 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms, Technology
A Cabinet Office team involved in early CTS user research.

The technology you use to do your job should help you achieve more. When it doesn’t it’s frustrating.

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