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.
https://governmentdigitalservice.podbean.com/mf/web/umna4j/Podcast_Ep01_Mixdown_2018-09-27_1_.mp3 In the first episode of a new series of GDS podcasts, senior writer Angus Montgomery talks with the outgoing head of GOV.UK, Neil Williams, about his time here....
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.
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.
...is something we need to focus on. We need to approach voice services in a consistent and scalable way. So rather than write code for a specific platform, we’re 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.
...build a service journey on GOV.UK. Driving change on the driving page To pilot this work, we looked at some services that we knew a lot about and that we...
...past 5 years. And the work we’re doing now is just as groundbreaking and exciting as it was back then, so watch this space! Marian Foley, Content Designer, GDS I...
...the content (excluding some formats – news, for example – that we wouldn’t want to change retrospectively). Improve the content (where necessary). Tag the content to the new taxonomy and...
...stable state, in a responsible way. Product managers share what it’s like to manage and change scope to deliver in a fixed timeframe. Luke Malcher, Product Manager, GOV.UK Benchmarking When...
...pain points with existing content with ‘cognitive walkthroughs’ develop content plans review, redesign and rewrite content check the facts plan for major changes (unpublishing, redirecting) establish evaluation frameworks ‘We’ included...
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