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.
We're already talked about why we chose Amazon Web Services for hosting the beta of GOV.UK, and how we approached some of the decisions that came with it. Cloud hosting gives us the flexibility to rapidly iterate our infrastructure as …
I invited David Gigg and Ian Sears from Stephen Allott's team along to the 3rd Agile Teacamp late last month. Stephen (pictured), in his role as Government Crown Representative for SMEs, is committed to giving emerging suppliers a stronger voice …
At GDS, you will repeatedly hear that meeting user needs is the defining principle behind GOV.UK. There are a number of data sources that help us design and iterate the products we are building, including data from internal systems.
All of the editorial content on GOV.UK is available in full via an API. It's the same API we use to communicate between the editorial tools and the apps that produce the pages you see. As I said several months …
Hello, I’m Russell Davies, I’m helping out at GDS with the way the site looks and feels and how we explain it to users. This is clearly way less important than getting the site to work properly and to the …
Later this month we will unveil another bit of our GOV.UK beta - the element that explains the work and workings of government. This is intended to replace the many separate sites run by government organisations, simplifying things for people …
Another day, another set of updates to GOV.UK:
Those of you who heard Chris Chant’s infamous unacceptable speech will have heard the horror story of the £20,000 bill to change a single line of code. A simple comment in our customer feedback channel yesterday afternoon showed just how GOV.UK …
If we want to carry on doing amazing things here at GDS then we need to carry on building up the world-class digital talent in Government. We already have some excellent people in the team and there’s more on the way, …
The Government's Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox and Tom Loosemore, who is leading on the development of this phase of GOV.UK, were invited on to BBC News today to introduce GOV.UK to their viewers.
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
