GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership
GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership
An update about GOV.UK Wallet and our engagement with the technology sector.
The SEO war - fighting the good fight in search
At GDS we’re using search data to inform every aspect of content production. It’s no dry data analysis though, search logs reveal surprising insights about what people really want. Lana Gibson, Product Analyst at GDS, explains how understanding search behaviour …
Civil Service Live - Social media workshop
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Louise Kidney - former Digital Engagement Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital engagement
On Wednesday 4th July, GDS ran a 30 minute workshop called 'Social media guidelines: So what?' at Civil Service Live. In a slightly departure from the usual presentation style at Civil Service Live, we decided to mix things up. Louise …
A few notes on typography
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
On Tuesday evening we made another release of changes to GOV.UK. One of the biggest areas of discussion centered around the typography changes. Ben Terrett, Head of Design, explains the...
Introducing a new tool - Licence Finder
...the Licence Finder. I wanted to explain a bit more about how it came into being. What does it do? The Licence Finder solves one of our more straightforward user...
Introducing the next iteration of GOV.UK
As Tom explained back in January, the GOV.UK beta is a work in progress. We've been hard at work behind the scenes since then, and today we're releasing a new batch of content, as well as the next iteration of …
GOV.UK editorial style guide
Today marks the launch of the alpha release of the GOV.UK editorial style guide. Sarah Richards, Content Design Lead on the Delivery team explains why this is important and how...
Open Data White Paper commits Government to publishing Developer Engagement Strategy
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Emer Coleman - former Deputy Director of Digital Engagement, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital engagement
...their data holdings In addition to the reaffirmation of the principles above the White Paper sets out an expanded Code Of Practice (in relation to the Datasets Section in the...
The speed of change
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Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
When a user sent a tweet about a possible improvement on GOV.UK, it became a great example of how quickly an agile team can respond to feedback. Chris Heathcote from the GDS design team explains how size doesn't necessarily mean …
Introducing the Digital Performance Framework - Alpha release
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Adam Bailin - former Lead Data Analyst, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, Technology
Managing transactional services is a complex task and can be quite bewildering with many systems and measurements involved. However, because we have digital tools and technologies, we can now pull...
Riding the Paradigm - where agile meets programme
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Mike Beaven - former Director for Transformation, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...a pretty established and successful agile software delivery engine. Whilst it is relatively new it has become a firmly established way of working beyond the core delivery teams, and lean/agile...
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