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.
At GDS we intend the web to be the primary platform for publishing things like policy, speeches and detailed guidance, with any print documents taking a supporting role. As a consequence legibility online becomes hugely important, because the reader will …
Getting departments and agencies ready for the move to GOV.UK isn’t just a job for GDS. John Ploughman, Digital Communication Manager for the Driving Standards Agency, talks about what it’s been like from their perspective. Making the move to Inside …
Today we’re releasing an updated version of our Performance Platform dashboard, the tool that shows analytics data about how GOV.UK is being used. Today’s updates focus on improving the usability and readability, building on prototypes that were built through the …
In several recent posts about the upcoming release of Inside Government we’ve linked in passing to this little blog on the side - a Tumblr (update: the Tumblr is no longer in use by GDS) where we, the product team …
One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and the EU. The tool lets …
Government is a major news source. As central government departments begin the transition to GOV.UK they'll be publishing their news in a single place, and we have a fantastic opportunity to improve the user experience of this high profile content. …
One of the best things about well-designed digital services - shopping, banking, booking flights - is how much more efficient they are for users. But an equally big plus of digital is the efficiency benefits for organisations providing those services. …
While you tuck into your toffee apple and enjoy the fireworks this evening, make sure you save a few oohs and aahs for us. In ten days’ time, on November 15, the first two government departments will move their corporate …
Huge thanks to Helen Hardy from HMRC for writing this guest post. Helen has worked in the team managing businesslink.gov.uk since January 2009, and she writes here about the evolution of businesslink.gov.uk and what the site's closure means to the …
Following the successful release of GOV.UK a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to share some of the work we've done to support users on mobile devices (smartphones and any other portable devices with a modern web browser). It's a …
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