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.
This post was contributed by Joanne Inskip, Senior Customer Insight Manager at the Government Digital Service: At the start of 2011, the GDS Customer Insight team were given the task of developing a research methodology that could: Measure the …
In a previous post we discussed a few of of the ways government is using social media to interact better with citizens. Asking for ideas for new health apps, live blogging events (DECC’s Pylon design competition) and MoD’s personal security for social media campaign going viral …
Over 30 people turned for the very first meeting of the Agile Tea camp, held Thursday 22 September at Café Zest, on the 2nd Floor of the House of Fraser store in Victoria Street, Westminster. There was lots of networking before …
Public APIs are a vital feature of the modern web. Whether you're looking at the ecosystem of Twitter and Facebook apps, tools for managing auctions on ebay, or code for embedding Youtube videos in a blog post, clear ways of …
Working out the exact "shape" of the gov.uk beta has been a long, difficult process. Working out what needs it should meet, how best each need should be met and then defining how the whole proposition hangs together are hard …
Hi, my name is Abby Peel and I have recently joined Mark O'Neill in the Innovation and Delivery team within the Government Digital Service as Head of Community. The team is working with government and non-government communities to continue to …
Hello! I'm Léonie Watson. I'm working with Government Digital Service (GDS) on the accessibility of the beta site. This is the first of a series of accessibility focused posts I'll be putting together over the next few months.
Teacamp is an informal monthly meet-up of Government and non-government digerati, in a café drinking tea, hence ‘teacamp’. It began in 2008 as an offshoot of UKgovcamp and we’ve been meeting monthly since then. It is open to anyone and …
This is the first of a series of posts about how I'm taking forward objective two of the single domain project: the "private beta test of a shared 'corporate' publishing platform aimed at replacing most of the activity currently hosted …
To outsiders it may sound like a superficial question, but one thing I keep getting asked around Government is "will the single-domain be orange?" – at least in reference to the sections for citizens which will launch in public Beta …
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