GOV.UK turned one today
It's been a busy week at GDS, but this afternoon we took a few minutes out to celebrate the first birthday of GOV.UK. I wrote a bit this morning on the Inside GOV.UK blog about what the year has meant …
GOV.UK
Posts about the development and iteration of the GOV.UK website. You can find more information for GOV.UK publishers on the Inside GOV.UK blog.
This week at GDS
...looking at how we can manage project governance better with Agile and standard projects, which sounds a thrilling topic. Interviewer: That’s terrific. Until next time. Mike: Thank you very much....
Testing with users around the world
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Katy Arnold and Chris Atherton, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
...work we were doing and went out of their way to help us by talking to staff in overseas visa application centres. We tested a lot in Kuwait, quite a...
Welcoming even more people to GOV.UK
The transition team are the people responsible for helping hundreds more agencies and organisations move their websites onto GOV.UK. They’ve started blogging about that work, and I wanted to explain a bit more about what that work means for GDS.
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
...also work on Assisted Digital, which is profoundly important. All these jobs can be found out on the website: digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/jobs. Interviewer: Until next time. Mike Bracken: Till next time, onwards....
Talking accessibility at ustwo
Back in May of this year I tweeted about how impressed I was that London-based agency ustwo had released an update to their "Pixel Perfect Precision" handbook, which included a new section on accessibility. The handbook, written so that new …
Learning in public with the LPA beta
...makes perfect Keeping the LPA service running, and improving it, is jointly owned by the OPG and MoJ's Digital Services Division. The two agencies are working across different locations, and...
How the new GOV.UK homepage is performing
We introduced a new version of the GOV.UK homepage a few weeks ago, and since then we’ve collected lots of data about what’s working and what improvements we can make. We thought we’d share some of the headlines here. You …
On dropping the name “Inside Government” from GOV.UK
...When asked what site they were using, people just said “GOV.UK”. “Inside Government” did not feature in their mental model of the site at all. When we then drew users’...
How to cover rolling news events
From time to time, a news event can trigger a high volume of response from the government. It may involve information coming from a number of different departments, for example, or need frequent updates as a situation unfolds. The challenge …
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