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.
GDS team
Posts about who we are and how we work.
Interesting stuff from GOV.UK blogs
A couple of weeks ago, we updated the index page for all the blogs hosted on GOV.UK.
Principles for prototyping
All our projects begin with discovery, a short phase in which we start researching the needs of users, understand the things we'll need to measure to improve the service, and explore technology and other constraints.
Weekend links: Choosing checklists, checking content, customer companies and more
...what makes it onto GOV.UK. This post from Jeremy Waite about how to build a truly social business is worth a look. Data nerds - here are over 100 weird...
Weekend links: vCloud, Darwin database, proof of concept and more
...this week - find out why on the data blog. Reviewing design work is never easy - but these ten questions are a pretty good start. Last week marked the...
Weekend links: Instagram, filtered search, cyclotrons and more
...work. https://instagram.com/p/nvsdtFyo4p/# Filtered search is changing the way we can use GOV.UK - meet our first finders on Inside GOV.UK. The GDS content designers and writers were inspired by...
Weekend links: International Space Station, more hackathons, GDS Technology, and more
...website transition over to GOV.UK. And finally, one of our favourite things this week is the NASA live stream from the International Space Station. Don't forget to sign up...
Weekend links: more Lego, lessons learned, DVSA and more
...it comes to sharing code between projects. We liked this post about using graphic design to make learning maths easier. The guys from FutureGov have written about their local government...
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.
Weekend links: hackathons, time travel, glow-in-the-dark motorways and more
...busy helping anglers report their catch to the government - and they've been using agile to do it. Some clever folks in the Netherlands have developed light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings...
Related content and links
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