Testing GOV.UK with real users
...can see how people move through GOV.UK, and Nick will tell you more about that method soon. Smaller, one-to-one methods like lab based testing gives us real, qualitative information about...
GDS team
Posts about who we are and how we work.
Where has ‘auto suggest’ gone?
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
‘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...
SEO for 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 …
Why we've changed the homepage
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK
...would be the easiest way for people to find information, so we promoted that on the homepage. But in testing the site, we started to find something else. Over time...
Introducing today's release
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 …
Building for inclusion
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 …
This week at GDS
Here’s a round up of some of the things we’ve been up to over the last week in the GOV.UK team The editorial team published their 1358th piece of content...
Meet the hosting and infrastructure team
...and to the world - and videos like this are a great way of introducing our people and showing what goes on behind the scenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQc7fF_XCc Next up - Finance!...
Work experience with no photocopier in sight
...that needed checking; looked at websites that had been changed and asked to provide user feedback on them; worked with the Inside Government team, checking site content; I met other...
Switching voices - @gdsteam
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Louise Kidney - former Digital Engagement Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital engagement, GDS team
To coincide with the recent release of the next iteration of GOV.UK, Louise Kidney, Digital Engagement Lead explains why we are changing the name of our Twitter account and what you can expect to see from the renamed @GDSTeam Twitter …
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