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.
If you search for Directgov on Wikipedia, or ever happen to browse through our press releases, you’ll see a version of our history that’s based pretty much around landmark achievements and major events. And that’s fine. We are one of …
Update: we've blogged more recently about the current state of APIs on GOV.UK. Last week I talked about GOV.UK's APIs and how we use them to build and monitor the site. Now it's time to say a little more about …
We talk a lot about Open Source at GDS. GOV.UK is built on open source software and, to a degree, built as open source software. It's a topic we care passionately about because it helps us maintain our focus on …
I’ve written web content for everyone from huge corporations to one-person start ups, and from small charities to central government departments. But for the last few months I’ve been writing ‘citizen-facing’ content (ie for the public, rather than policy-makers and …
In the past couple of months, we’ve been making it easier to browse the site. I’m going to cover a bit of what we’ve done to improve things and tell you a little bit about why it's changed.
As we build up to the release of GOV.UK next week, it seems like a good moment to reflect on the big idea behind GOV.UK. As ever, it all starts with users.
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.
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 …
Last summer, Max Gadney and Matt Biddulph briefly joined the GDS team to bring their experience and insight to an early stage product for measuring the performance of digital public services. Max explains how they developed a prototype to demonstrate …
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.
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