Why it’s important to add gender identity options to digital services
It’s important to have gender identity options in digital services so we changed our own data recording at GDS to accommodate this.
The GDS Team
Podcast: Improving navigation on GOV.UK
When was the last time you noticed any changes to GOV.UK? We share how and why we’ve updated its homepage and menu bars.
Podcast: Understanding the complexity of users' lives
Why build a product people won't or can't use? Our user researchers share their approach to understanding needs for government’s single sign-on.
Podcast: How to start a career in tech
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Three developers from the Government Digital Service discuss common misconceptions about tech careers, and how to get started.
GDS is 10: we’re ready for our next chapter
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) is turning 10. Watch as team members share - in 10 seconds or less - what excites them most about what’s coming next.
Podcast: Maps in services
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Colleagues from the GOV.UK Design System and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs discuss how teams can help make maps in public services better.
Podcast: How our Site Reliability Engineers migrated GOV.UK Pay
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Wondered how to migrate a 24/7 product to a serverless platform? We chat about initial user research, developing DevOps skills and the benefits of GDS's approach to this type of tech project.
Podcast: Collecting information from users
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People and skills, Podcast, Service design, Transformation, User research, Ways of working
Struggle to collect information from your users? Hear from the GDS team that’s trying to make every form on GOV.UK accessible, easy to use and quick to process.
Podcast: Digital identity - working with government services
Helena Trippe and Will Myddleton share how the Digital Identity team works with colleagues in departments, like guest Tom Stewart from Veterans UK, to ensure users are getting the most out of services.
Podcast: Technologists at GDS
Himal Mandalia and Louise Ryan join Louise Harris on this month’s podcast to chat about the breadth and depth of what technologists do at GDS.
Related content and links
Government’s authentication and digital identity solution
Read GDS’s recent blog post for an update on our one login for government programme, including live beta, onboarding and feature development.
Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.