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
...open source product to allow them the freedom to customise the tool for their needs. Interested in how we review content? Our checklist for content criteria helps content designers decide...
Weekend links: vCloud, Darwin database, proof of concept and more
...firewall, NAT rules and load balancers. At our recent Sprint policy event, we learned it’s not change that should worry us, but staying the same. We've been hacking Google Analytics...
Weekend links: Instagram, filtered search, cyclotrons and more
...student Khyati Trehan. User research is a massive part of our work at GDS, and this week the cabinet office technology blog is talking about user testing with cabinet office...
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
Got a link you think we'll like? Share it with us on Twitter - @gdsteam Google Street Map "time machine" of Aviation House Forget Back to the Future - Google...
Related content and links
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