This week at GDS
Highlights - this week marks 6 months of GOV.UK, with some great statistics including 187 million visits to the site and 546 million page views since launch. We were really pleased this week to be chosen by the Design Museum …
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Writing guidance for the service design manual
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. …
GOV.UK wins Design of the Year 2013
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Judges unanimously voted for GOV.UK above other category winners including fashion, furniture and architecture, for its "well thought out, yet understated design" - Design Museum design of the year award 16 April 2013 #designsoftheyear
From the centre and here to help
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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 …
This week at GDS
...to their registration process. Several other large transactions at Defra, the Home Office, DWP and HMRC are also making progress. Next week sees the full launch of our Service Standard...
Setting the standard
Last month was a really important one for the Digital by Default Service Standard. We launched our beta for one thing. Just as importantly, the Digital Leaders network - the people responsible for driving the digital agenda across government - …
This week at GDS
...high of 6.13m visitors in the last week of February, which will only increase as more departments move across to GOV.UK. Tom Loosemore's blog post on whether we should use...
This week at GDS
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...also been strengthened with the addition of 15 new policies. Four more departments have joined GOV.UK in one week, leaving 6 to go. Three events of note: one for large,...
Designs of the Year
...code is on GitHub. Although we made this for the exhibition we’re already thinking of other ways we could use it, given that it’s web-based. It could be a great...
Digital Britain Two
...moving in the right direction. But it’s also a helpful reminder of the work we still need to do to support those who are less able to use online services....
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