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.
Those of you who heard Chris Chant’s infamous unacceptable speech will have heard the horror story of the £20,000 bill to change a single line of code. A simple comment in our customer feedback channel yesterday afternoon showed just how GOV.UK …
The Government's Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox and Tom Loosemore, who is leading on the development of this phase of GOV.UK, were invited on to BBC News today to introduce GOV.UK to their viewers.
We said we’d be iterative, so here’s a list of all the changes we’ve made since the release last night. Most of these things went live at 3pm today - largely based on your feedback - so keep it coming!
A few minutes ago we released the first phase of the beta test of GOV.UK - the next step on the journey towards a single domain for central government. As Mike Bracken, HMG Executive Director for Digital said, our aim is to …
We have released the beta of GOV.UK, testing a simpler way to get to government services and information…
As a Product Analyst in the GDS Delivery team acquiring data is critical for telling us if our products are meeting user needs and how improvements must be made to content and services. Our team analyses not only search data …
Back in April last year the Alpha.gov.uk team talked about Google being the homepage*: "Since for the vast majority of people their web journeys (finding out the date of the next bank-holiday, or reporting a lost passport) start with a …
Directgov has had a mobile website since 2005. To put this into context, the top selling device that year was the Nokia 1110 (pictured below) - so as you can imagine we were quite limited with what we could achieve.
Our goal is to make GOV.UK the best designed, most accessible Government website to date. To realise this aim we maintain a relentless focus on user need, therefore what browser people use when they access GOV.UK is critically important. It …
I really enjoyed being able to get to UKGovCamp 2012 last Friday where I had a chance to outline some of our thinking around GOV.UK.
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
