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.
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.
Why are we doing this?
Here's a reminder as to why it's so critical that GOV.UK offers UK citizens the best possible digital experience.
We are not the first to tread this path
...has been produced by an agile, multi-disciplinary team of designers, developers and product specialists. We know there are similar in-house teams hard at work doing great things across government. Multi-disciplinary...
The power of the disinterested
One of the criticisms of the 'Alphagov' project I’m most aware of is the ‘who do they think they are’ approach to the team itself. The bulk of the team...
Accessibility
Posted by:
Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, GOV.UK
...with design separated from content, build with syndication to other platforms in mind) that have been the mainstay of commercial web development for several years now. But we opted against...
A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk
Posted by:
Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
...about who our users were and generally discussing the kind of thing we were setting out to make. 'User centred' was always going to be one of the fundamentals of...
Towards a simpler, smaller, nimbler, cheaper, better GOV.UK
Alpha.gov.uk will test a selection of products and technologies aiming to meet the needs that people have from government online.
Towards a Single Government Domain
...begun to its logical conclusion. Tom Loosemore Their brief is twofold: to show how it is possible to deliver, quickly, a working model of a new and fundamentally user-focused approach...
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