Building with APIs
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 …
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This week at GDS
...upcoming projects and building tools to help process some data from the Cabinet Office Emer Coleman from our comms team spoke at the Code For America summit in San Francisco....
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...
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!...
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