Today the cross-Government Identity Assurance programme sanctioned DWP to publish a tender to procure Identity services for all of Government. The notice appears here in the Official Journal of the...
Today we have released part 2 of the GOV.UK beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. You can see our other post today for more on what this is all about and why it matters. But here, we’re going to take a quick …
Today we unveil the next bit of the GOV.UK beta - INSIDE GOVERNMENT. This is the place where, in future, people who are personally or professionally interested in the business of government will be able to research how government works …
Hello, I'm Paul, also known as @psd and I've just joined GDS as a Technical Architect. First impressions are important but soon forgotten, so here are some of mine from the first day of working with the team.
...We agree, it needs to be improved. So we’re going to try out a simpler application process, with less jargon and fewer questions, for the jobs we are now advertising...
I spent Saturday at Ravensbourne College in North Greenwich as one of the judges at Interactivism - a hack event organised by Google, FutureGov, Livity and the RSA looking at...
Inherent to the content strategy of the citizen beta of GOV.UK is hiding complexity and building tools before writing content. Much of the detail of government policy is difficult for normal folk to grasp and understand - and the proposition of …
An important design rule of GOV.UK is to hide complexity, so if we are being truly user-centric, people should not need to understand the structure of government to be able to access services. Search data tells us that when people …
...people just like... Which brings us back to the quote at the beginning. If you haven’t guessed, it’s by that great master of the line drawing Henri Matisse, and I...
...of additional, redefined or removed features. Fortunately, the way we've designed the front-end of GOV.UK makes it quite simple for us to make changes across the site. The majority of...
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