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.
On 28th February, GOV.UK released a second beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. So, six weeks later, what have we learned? From the benefits of ‘storytime’ to the real value of precocious developers, Pete Herlihy outlines some of the things the team …
The third phase of the beta of GOV.UK
This week saw one of the key set pieces in the Government’s annual calendar - the Budget. All of Government is affected and we're no different here in Government Digital Service. In this budget the government set out its ambition …
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 which came into effect last year has presented UK website owners with a few challenges in moving to compliance. Those of us who work on public sector websites are no …
Since we released INSIDE GOVERNMENT, 2 weeks ago, we’re already iterating and have made a number of changes. We’ve had tons of useful feedback and we’re making incremental improvements in response, as well as continuing to develop the software and …
When the beta of GOV.UK was released, it naturally provoked a huge number of questions from people working in local as well as central government. We’ve written before on this blog about how important local services are to GOV.UK so …
Today we have released part 2 of the GOV.UK beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. You can see our other post today for more on what this is all about and why it matters. But here, we’re going to take a quick …
Today we unveil the next bit of the GOV.UK beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. This is the place where, in future, people who are personally or professionally interested in the business of government will be able to research how government works …
Inherent to the content strategy of the citizen beta of GOV.UK is hiding complexity and building tools before writing content. Much of the detail of government policy is difficult for normal folk to grasp and understand - and the proposition of …
An important design rule of GOV.UK is to hide complexity, so if we are being truly user-centric, people should not need to understand the structure of government to be able to access services. Search data tells us that when people …
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