Hosting the beta of GOV.UK
Design rules are the basis for every decision we have made in the development of the beta of GOV.UK and hosting is no exception. The key design rule is not to be locked in to a single supplier and to …
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.
User testing accessibility
...– both able-bodied and disabled – has focussed our efforts on not just whether our code validates or the colour contrast is good enough but that formats work for all...
Ben Terrett on designing GOV.UK
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...knew something had to be done. Kinnear and Calvert proposed one consistent system. One designed with the clarity of information as it's goal. From then on Britain had a solution...
Quantitative testing Betagov content and layout
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Nick Breeze - Lead User Researcher, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, Data, GOV.UK
I am Nick Breeze, one of the Senior Insight Managers at GDS and I work in the team responsible for testing content being developed for gov.uk. Recently we completed quantitative usability testing to compare the performance of content and layout …
Scotland catch the Experimental Prototype bug
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK
...can try out the prototype at www.directscot.org and find out more about our thinking through the blog and Twitter @DirectScot. We'd welcome your feedback. Dave Hall DirectScot Prototype Lead at...
Cookies on the beta
The use of cookies on websites has become an increasingly hot topic over the past few months. A new EU law - specifically The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (PECR) - requires that websites ask for …
It's all about the words
...that's what we want our users to do - but there is only one way to find out what works: test it. Sarah Richards is one of the lead content...
Introducing Jordan Hatch
...developers on such an innovative project. Lately, there's been a lot of discussion around teaching kids to code from an early age. At secondary school, I was first inspired to...
Mobile's role in bridging the digital divide
...digital world is dwindling, it’s important to remember that only 74% of adults have access to broadband at home, compared to 91% of adults who have a mobile phone. In...
The vision for government corporate websites in the Single Domain (with product wireframes)
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
This is the third in a series of posts sharing progress on how we are tackling objective two of the single domain 'beta' project: specifically the creation and test of a unified publishing platform capable of replacing many of the websites which …
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