Sketching our way to Alpha.gov.uk
We’ve talked about initial analysis, design rules and technology. Now we're taking those sketches to build something to satisfy them on Alpha.gov.uk.
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.
A vision for online consultation and policy engagement
Posted by:
Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital engagement, GOV.UK
We discuss what government should do to consult, engage and involve people more openly in the work it does, online.
What was the evidence? Users’ information needs and analytics
We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.
Mike Bracken appointed as HMG Executive Director for Digital
In the past few months this blog has made a few introductions and this will be the last for a while! We are very pleased to announce that Mike Bracken has been appointed as the Government’s new Executive Director for …
It's all about the nodes and what lives at them
To say that no-one wants to visit a government website is an over-simplification. But it's certainly true that the compulsion is significantly different from what drives people to a destination website like BBC News or Facebook, or from something customer-facing …
Agile does work in government
Just as there are trends in technology, there are fashions in project management and some feel that agile is poorly suited to government and is just a fad. One of the principle objectives for this project was to demonstrate that …
Sketching (and some features that didn't quite make it)
Posted by:
Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
We share a few of the early sketches from the alpha.gov.uk project, some of which include features that we either dropped when we realised they would work or haven't got around to implementing yet.
A brief overview of technology behind Alpha.gov.uk
The team share an overview of the technology used to develop Alpha.gov.uk.
Broadly, the visual language of Alpha.gov.uk
Read about the colour and typography used for Alpha.gov.uk which is a demonstration of what a single central Government site could be.
What's the deal with place names?
Alpha.gov.uk would work best if it knew where in the country its visitors are from. We'd love to get your feedback on our approach to this.
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