Building a performance platform for GOV.UK
...a prototype for how we might use data to improve public services. His number one goal was to initially show how GOV.UK usage data could represent success or failure in...
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.
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...
Style v2
One of the first headings in the GOV.UK editorial style guide is ‘Ever-changing style guide’. And it has just changed again. Biggest change for GOV.UK The biggest change is more...
What are we doing about… access permissions?
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
As work progresses on the Inside Government publishing platform, Neil Williams, Product Manager, explains some of the thinking behind using a 'noise not restriction' approach and asks for Departments input on where restriction might be necessary.
Introducing a new supplier (Skyscape)
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Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Technology
As you will know, we at GDS are building GOV.UK, currently in beta at www.gov.uk. As part of that process we have been thinking about the best way to host...
Learning from user testing
We’re doing a lot of user testing over the summer, and Sarah Prag has a quick update on a couple of things we’ve already changed based on what we’ve learnt so far.
The all new Trade Tariff tool
Yesterday the new Trade Tariff tool on GOV.UK was released as part of the wider ‘international trade’ release. Matthew Ford, Ruby on Rails developer from Bit Zesty explores the tool in more detail.
Shipping new formats: the GOV.UK ‘international trade’ release
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Technology
...of the complexity for people needing to look up EU commodity codes and other customs information when importing or exporting goods. We’ll be explaining more about this tool in a...
From Solr to elasticsearch
Search is right at the centre of GOV.UK. It’s the main focus of the homepage and it appears in the corner of every single page. Many of our recent and upcoming apps such as licence finder also rely heavily on …
Bank Holiday story - is it really simpler, clearer, faster?
At GDS we iterate. One of the key contributions to that iteration is the post change checking to make sure that the users needs truly have been met and that the rules of the game have not changed. Peter Jordan, …
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