Podcast: Head of GOV.UK Neil Williams looks back on his time at GDS
The outgoing head of GOV.UK, talks about his time at GDS, the successes and challenges, and what the future holds for the nation’s website.
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.
Hey GOV.UK, what are you doing about voice?
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Sam Dub - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Mark Hurrell, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GOV.UK
With almost a quarter of all search queries on Android devices currently spoken, here's more detail on the work we've been doing to meet the emerging needs of voice assistant users and make government more accessible.
Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Content design, GOV.UK
We're not huge fans of PDFs on GOV.UK. We hope this post will help publishers explain to colleagues the problems with using them and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.
Building the GOV.UK of the future
Head of GOV.UK Neil Williams talks about the work that's been happening to future proof the government's content, including keeping up with new technologies and turning to robots to help.
GOV.UK: a journey in scaling agile
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Nick Tait - Head of Advisory, Government Digital Service, Alan Wright - former Lead Delivery Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Jen Allum - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Ways of working
Being agile doesn’t mean simply installing a methodology and then religiously sticking to that methodology. A little while ago we learned that we had a few challenges with GOV.UK delivery. So we had to adapt our approach. Here’s what we did and what we learned.
Building end-to-end services into GOV.UK
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Kate Ivey-Williams and Sam Dub - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK, Transformation
Doing complex tasks like ‘starting a business’ or ‘learning to drive’ means users have to find lots of different pieces of content and interact with government lots of times. We’ve been working to take all these bits and pieces and build them into a coherent service journey, which will be displayed on a single page.
GOV.UK at 5: well-primed for the future
Five years ago, with agencies and other departments, GDS took 2,000 government sites and turned them into a single publishing platform. In this blog post, people inside and outside GDS tell us what GOV.UK means to them.
Transforming transport content: the journey so far
We want to make it easier for users to find what they need on GOV.UK. So, we partnered with the Department for Transport and its agencies to transform the GOV.UK transport content.
Quarterly missions: a new way of working
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Luke Malcher, Humin Miah and Mark McLeod - former Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
As we’ve done since the beginning of GOV.UK, teams will continue to work in an agile way. However, work is now organised into quarter-long missions, each with a specific goal.
Taking care of business on GOV.UK
People don’t care about our internal processes. They just want to ‘do the thing’ – set up their limited company or register for self-assessment. Here's how we helped them do that.
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