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
My name is Joshua Marshall, and I'm a front-end developer and the Accessibility Lead for the team working on the beta of GOV.UK. Most of my focus has been on making sure that both the public facing website and the …
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
This continues a story I started on my own blog where I wrote about my previous job as Design Director at Wieden & Kennedy London. This is the one where I write about joining GDS as Head of Design. Later …
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
Yesterday I spent a hugely interesting and informative day meeting colleagues in Glasgow. One of the highlights for me was being able to congratulate David Hall (pictured) from the Scottish Government on the launch of the DirectScot.org experimental prototype two …
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
When people talk about web design they sometimes take good editorial work for granted. We've already talked about how we are identifying user needs and content titles for gov.uk but this post looks at how we are developing our editorial approach.
Introducing Jordan Hatch
Hi, my name is Jordan Hatch, I'm seventeen, and last week I joined the development team working on the gov.uk beta. It's great to be working with so many talented developers on such an innovative project.
Mobile's role in bridging the digital divide
This is a guest post from the GDS mobile team: The GDS mobile team made a trip to Chiswick last week to OpenMarket, providers of our SMS delivery platform and shortcode number, to find out a bit more about how …
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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