Ways of working
We took advantage of the switch to remote working and tried new working practices in GOV.UK Pay. Our aim was to help people find a balance between work and life that works for them. Here’s what happened.
DIT’s data team explain how working in the open resulted in improvements to the GOV.UK Notify service.
Recently we've been blogging a lot about how coronavirus has changed operations within government. Here we share how we changed our community management techniques to cope with the huge increase of user queries and what our top tips to other organisations are.
GDS senior creative writers Angus Montgomery and Sarah Stewart discuss the role of writers in government and how clear writing can help people to do their jobs better. If you’re asked to write a blog post, opinion piece or presentation, here are Angus and Sarah’s 10 tips for clear writing.
...up their own community. There is guidance to help you do this in the Service Manual. Here are the benefits that setting up a service community can bring. Connect with...
...keeps everything in one place. Guidance similar to that listed here is also included in one of the tabs in the spreadsheet, as guidance for curators. Keep an eye on...
In this guest post, Dean Vipond, lead designer at NHS Digital, describes how they adapted the GOV.UK Design System for use in their health and care services.
...approach it as an experiment to see if we can make multi-supplier delivery work. Our findings so far Here’s what we’ve found so far: 1. It can be done! So...
...OneTeamGov network. You can subscribe to the GDS podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all other major podcast platforms. You can read a transcript of the podcast on Podbean. Subscribe...
...challenge and how many people and resources the challenge-owning organisation needs to commit. It also means we’re not wasting anyone's time with fruitless bids. Know what good looks like We...