GDS blogs round-up
...mean code must be perfect. In fact, it shouldn’t be: the majority of time should be spent iterating the design, not making code beautiful. Prototypes are made to be tested...
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It's all about trust - auditing local government domains
...used for - we will also never allow a non-public sector organisation to register with our gov.uk domain. As part of this and if an authority has a number of...
Happy birthday GOV.UK
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK
...when we needed it. And of course there's Martha Lane Fox. Not just because she wrote the report that started it all, but because she's been a constant source of...
Liam Maxwell commits to CTO post until 2018
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...as Chief Technology Officer for government until at least 2018. That's good news for all sorts of reasons. Liam is famous around government for waving his phone at people. Wrapped...
100 technical hires
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...starts at Student Loans Company next week and was Managing Director and CIO at BT. Office of National Statistics has taken on Laura Dewis, Deputy Director Digital Publishing, who was...
Our first video production workshop
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Graham Higgins - former Senior Digital Media Producer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...front of three different cameras, so we could compare the footage from each. The cameras were, from cheap to expensive: a smartphone with an external microphone (iPhone 4 & Rode...
Inspiring teenagers: getting schools to beat bogus websites
...workshops that allowed these young people to experience what it is like to work at GDS. The workshop was based on GDS's #StartAtGOVUK campaign. We asked the teens to design...
Thank you Stephen Kelly
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...he has played a huge part in delivering the early stages of the UK Government's digital development. Follow Mike on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....
Meet the IT network team
...growing organisation, that means that the network’s also growing. An exemplar for government Paul Collman We set out trying to build our network environment and build our Macs for a...
What’s the design process at GDS?
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GDS team, Service design
...All of the designers can code or are learning to code. We call ourselves the Design Team because it's important to belong to a group with shared skills and experiences....
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