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.
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 …
...the remote control for your life. We’re now seeing around 9% of visits to Directgov coming via a mobile device and we’ll see over 2 million visits to the mobile...
...per the Government’s own guidelines. Not all browsers will render web pages in the same way, often there is a marked difference between browsers in the way that they handle...
...within Whitehall but beyond. Martin Howitt reflects in his blog that “The Government Digital Service used to be us. Now it's them.” I am not happy with that definition. The...
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 …
...– 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...
...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...
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 …
...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...
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 …
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The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.