As GOV.UK Forms moves into public beta, find out what we’ve done so far, what we’re doing next and how you can get involved and start building your own forms on the platform.
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’ve had a lot of feedback on our recent call for developers to join us at GDS. The biggest message by far was that the application process wasn’t very user-friendly. We agree, it needs to be improved. So we’re going …
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 innovative ways of using the web to help young people …
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 …
UPDATE (23 April 2015): The videos linked to in this blog post have been removed as part of the normal process of updating GOV.UK to better meet user needs. “You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté.” I wanted …
We took a decision early on in the project that GOV.UK should be forward-looking and exploit modern browsers. Browser technology evolves rapidly, so constant iteration will allow GOV.UK to exploit new technologies as they reach maturity.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, and I recently travelled to the West Coast of the US which coincided with the launch of GOV.UK. It was slightly surreal not to be in the UK for such an important …
We invited members of the cross Government Heads of Digital Engagement network along to GDS to participate in the release of GOV.UK. Nettie Williams (Ministry of Justice), Helen Lewis (HM Treasury) and Ian Strafford (Dept of Work & Pensions) very …
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
