2016 on the GDS blog

...Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple In May, Alistair Duggin blogged about the work he’d started on making GOV.UK accessible. He explained how he wanted to ensure people...
...Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple In May, Alistair Duggin blogged about the work he’d started on making GOV.UK accessible. He explained how he wanted to ensure people...
The Service Manual helps people across government build better services and prepare for service assessments. We've spent the past year updating the content and design of the manual. Here is some more detail on our most recent updates.
The GOV.UK content team has been working with the Ministry of Defence Medal Office and Directorate of Defence Communications to improve the medals content on GOV.UK. GOV.UK is where serving and previous armed forces personnel, and some civilians can find out if they’re eligible, and how to apply.
...associate product manager. I’m now the full-time Head of the Product and Service Manager Community. I’m excited to be back at GDS to serve a community of product and service...
...make savings in the heart of government, the lessons learnt can be applied and borrowed to help elsewhere. Whether that may be healthcare or local councils or other areas entirely....
...the citizen. All of us here owe a great debt to the people who laid the foundations for the organisation we are today. One that is agile and iterative, in...
...Likewise, by making use of the UK Digital Marketplace code, we were able to release our beta version in just 5 weeks – months ahead of schedule. In July, GDS’s...
...imminent publication of the strategy and his plans for 2017 and beyond. Anyway. Time for some cake. Follow GDS on Twitter, and don’t forget to sign up for email alerts....
...which was attended by members of the EA content team, content designers working on EA services and a content designer from the Department for Communities and Local Government. We drafted...
...way to go. We’re approaching the service assessment transformation as we would a digital service transformation. User needs will continue to be identified and validated, and we will continue testing...