GDS Local shares the latest developments on how the initiative is supporting digital transformation in councils.
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 …
...type of content. So please feel free to tell us what you think. Links to the videos: https://www.gov.uk/after-a-death/overview https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-identity-check/overview https://www.gov.uk/your-right-to-minimum-wage/overview Graham Higgins (@grahamhi) is a Digital Content Producer for GDS...
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...
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...
...making waves across the pond and again at 5:30pm during a BBC News interview with Tom Loosemore and Martha Lane Fox. Links and comments and links were noted, debated and...
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 …
...receive email alerts for new contracts via the Contracts Finder service. Another initiative, the Mystery Shopper programme, has been launched as an extension of the Cabinet Office Supplier Feedback Service...
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 …
...of the little language decisions we’ve made around the edges of the site. Our first decision was to distinguish between the language of the core editorial content of the site...
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