Management by the team, not the managers
The People Board is elected by everyone in GDS, and is empowered to decide things and delegate tasks to other people and teams in GDS. This is how it works.
Giles Turnbull
It's ok to say what's ok
We're hiring quite a lot of new people at GDS, and that's brilliant because there are so many new brains and new skills and new faces to get to know. It's also difficult. It's difficult for those newcomers to know …
Doing the hard work to make talks readable
The slides aren't the thing. They're what make you pay attention to the thing.
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
How we make films at GDS
We've made quite a few films in the last year or two. Recently, a few people have got in touch to ask how we do it. The long answer to that is very long.
Find us elsewhere online
As well as this blog, GDS has a small selection of accounts on various social media networks and other web services, and we thought it would be useful to publish a list of them here.
Some interesting things about how we do content design
...subject of content design, starting with a short video interview with our own Padma Gillen, in which he explains what makes good content design and what makes a good content...
Interesting stuff from GOV.UK blogs
A couple of weeks ago, we updated the index page for all the blogs hosted on GOV.UK.
When to use caps around GOV.UK
Why do we write GOV.UK in capitals? And why is the URL written lower-case? You may well have heard the reasons, but we've never actually written them down. Let's fix that now.
Just doodling: telling the story with a few pen strokes
One thing visitors to the GDS office can't help noticing is the colourful selection of cartoons and doodles stuck on the walls.
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