The mobile question: Responsive Design
...the remote control for your life. We’re now seeing around 9% of visits to Directgov coming via a mobile device and we’ll see over 2 million visits to the mobile...
Digital, Data and Technology
Browsers we support and why
...per the Government’s own guidelines. Not all browsers will render web pages in the same way, often there is a marked difference between browsers in the way that they handle...
Quantitative testing Betagov content and layout
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Nick Breeze - Lead User Researcher, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, Data, GOV.UK
I am Nick Breeze, one of the Senior Insight Managers at GDS and I work in the team responsible for testing content being developed for gov.uk. Recently we completed quantitative usability testing to compare the performance of content and layout …
Mobile's role in bridging the digital divide
...digital world is dwindling, it’s important to remember that only 74% of adults have access to broadband at home, compared to 91% of adults who have a mobile phone. In...
PM launches Tech City mobile app
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology
This is a guest post from Alice Newton from the Innovation Team at GDS, Cabinet Office This morning David Cameron went to East London to mark a year of government support for Tech City, a cluster of tech, digital and …
SMEs – we need to talk
...many know it must. First off government has realised that it’s not that different. From now on if government wants some IT it needs to do what everyone else does...
Parliament Week hack day
Last weekend, I attended the closing session of a Parliamentary hack day run with Rewired State as part of Parliament Week 2011, a week of activities to engage with the public and encourage them to get involved in the UK's …
The Unacceptable
...it's time to make a change. The change we are already making is a big one. It will affect the way government buys IT, who we buy it from, how...
Listen to Chris Chant talking about G-Cloud
...as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative, and spoke about G-Cloud and what people can expect from it. For those who were unable to make the event, we recorded it...
Why I'm for #codingforkids
...of thoughts about what we could do and where we would need to focus to make a real difference for children. One of the things I asked everyone who attended...
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