Sharing the GDS approach with Code for America
Last week I spoke about GDS at the Code for America Summit in San Francisco, and I thought I'd share a few of my highlights from the event.
Posts about who we are and how we work.
Last week I spoke about GDS at the Code for America Summit in San Francisco, and I thought I'd share a few of my highlights from the event.
I’m Neil Williams, one of the product managers for GOV.UK. I work on the Inside Government and detailed guidance areas of the site, where practically all government organisations will publish their corporate and in-depth content in future.
I’m James Stewart and I’m one of the Technical Architects working at GDS. Over the past few months I’ve been mainly focussed on the publishing tools and platform that underpin GOV.UK, and in particular on the APIs they use and …
Here’s a round up of some of the things we’ve been up to over the last seven days at GDS
On Tuesday, Sarah Prag wrote about some changes being made to GOV.UK based on feedback from usability testing. We wanted to share a few more details about what we’ve been doing; the methods we’re using, and the people we’ve been …
‘Auto suggest’ was our attempt to second guess the answer a user wants based on the first few letters they type into a GOV.UK search box. We've had several people ask why we’ve removed the ‘auto suggest’ feature from GOV.UK …
A few months ago I wrote about how we're using search analytics and SEO (or Search Engine Optimisation for all the non-robots out there) to make sure that people get the right answer quickly when they look for government information using …
Yesterday we released the latest version of the homepage. It’s significantly different from any of the other homepages we’ve released so far, but it’s the one that’s tested the best and the one we’re happiest with.
Today we’ve released some quite big changes to GOV.UK designed to make it easier to find content, and to find your way around. I’m here to to give an overview of what’s changed and why, and then others in the …
It's been just over a year since we began working on the GOV.UK beta website, and accessibility has been an important part of our activity during that time. As expert consultant on the project, I've been working with GOV.UK's accessibility …