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.
UPDATE (23 April 2015): The videos linked to in this blog post have been removed as part of the normal process of updating GOV.UK to better meet user needs. “You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté.” I wanted …
We took a decision early on in the project that GOV.UK should be forward-looking and exploit modern browsers. Browser technology evolves rapidly, so constant iteration will allow GOV.UK to exploit new technologies as they reach maturity.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, and I recently travelled to the West Coast of the US which coincided with the launch of GOV.UK. It was slightly surreal not to be in the UK for such an important …
We invited members of the cross Government Heads of Digital Engagement network along to GDS to participate in the release of GOV.UK. Nettie Williams (Ministry of Justice), Helen Lewis (HM Treasury) and Ian Strafford (Dept of Work & Pensions) very …
We're already talked about why we chose Amazon Web Services for hosting the beta of GOV.UK, and how we approached some of the decisions that came with it. Cloud hosting gives us the flexibility to rapidly iterate our infrastructure as …
At GDS, you will repeatedly hear that meeting user needs is the defining principle behind GOV.UK. There are a number of data sources that help us design and iterate the products we are building, including data from internal systems.
All of the editorial content on GOV.UK is available in full via an API. It's the same API we use to communicate between the editorial tools and the apps that produce the pages you see. As I said several months …
Hello, I’m Russell Davies, I’m helping out at GDS with the way the site looks and feels and how we explain it to users. This is clearly way less important than getting the site to work properly and to the …
Later this month we will unveil another bit of our GOV.UK beta - the element that explains the work and workings of government. This is intended to replace the many separate sites run by government organisations, simplifying things for people …
Another day, another set of updates to GOV.UK:
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