...on people’s lives, making our services better and potentially saving millions of pounds in public money. It was great to finally get down to work on putting the structures in...
Last Friday Rebecca Kemp, Joshua Marshall and I visited the opening of the ‘Design that Makes a Difference’ exhibition at the Royal College of Art. Josh is our accessibility lead and Rebecca leads the Assisted Digital programme. Organised as a …
The first thing you see when you walk into GDS is the 7 main messages which guided the build of the GOV.UK alpha. Visitors to GDS often scribble them down, and like our Design Principles they help provide a shared language for …
The Government Digital Service started out as a small group of people with experience building and running large online services. Since then we’ve grown the team, added lots of smart people, and talked to even more experts from other organisations. …
Today we launched the Government Service Design Manual. It sets out the agreed Digital by Default Service Standard, and provides tools, guidance and code to help teams across government achieve it. It meets one of our 14 commitments in the …
In the Open Standards Principles we said that we'd set up an Open Standards Board to help us to decide which open standards to use in government IT. Now that we've published the first 8 challenges on the Standards Hub, …
...Government Service Design Manual to find out what services need to do to achieve the Digital by Default Service Standard. (And feel free to feed back to us where you...
...that met these requirements: Digital take-up: how many transactions are completed online? Cost per transaction: how much does it cost to provide each transaction? User satisfaction: how highly do users...
Today the National Audit Office (NAO) published their Digital Britain Two report, examining the government’s digital by default strategy. In particular, the report took a close look at the strategy...
Getting a new message out This week the IT Reform team within GDS released new guidance to government departments and suppliers around the technology we use. We've done this to make sure our technology doesn't end up becoming inflexible, overdesigned, …
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