How we built and ran ‘Introduction to content design’, and how to sign up
...going to talk about why and how we built the course, what people learnt from it, what surprised us and what we’re doing next. If you prefer, you can watch...
Podcast: Content Design
Content design lets users understand exactly what they need to do and when. It’s a way of translating complex policy into an easy to understand format. Learn more about content design and how its helped government in this month’s podcast.
Digital, data and technology (DDaT) senior leadership changes
Alex Chisholm, Chief Operating Officer for the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office, gives an update on senior leadership changes in the digital, data and technology (DDaT) profession.
Can GOV.UK Notify help the public sector write better emails, text messages and letters?
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Karl Chillmaid - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, User research
The GOV.UK Notify team wants to use content design to save the public sector time and money. We’re looking for volunteers to help us work out how.
Podcast: The DDaT Fast Stream at GDS
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The GDS Team, Posted on:
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Digital, Data and Technology, People and skills, Podcast
The Digital, Data and Technology Fast Stream is one of 15 Civil Service Fast Stream schemes. Listen to July’s episode of the GDS Podcast to hear from current and former participants in the scheme, reflecting on their experiences.
Larger, Better, Faster, Stronger: GOV.UK Pay’s progress in the last year
Find out about GOV.UK Pay’s progress in the last year to support large services and lower-tech services to move payments online, and what we’re looking at in the future.
Launching the Digital, Data and Technology Functional Standard
...a different job from technical standards like the Technology Code of Practice and Service Standard. If functional standards set out what functions should do and why, technical standards describe how...
Podcast: Celebrating 2 years of the Local Digital Declaration
The Local Digital Declaration celebrates its second birthday on 4 July. Listen to June’s episode of the GDS Podcast to find out how it started, how it connects people and how it helps local government organisations build digital services and platforms.
How the GovTech Catalyst is helping to grow the GovTech sector
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Harry Vos - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK Forms, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy
We are reflecting on the impact of our experimental first phase of the GovTech Catalyst. We found promising solutions to some of the hardest public sector challenges. After a successful first phase, we have started releasing £1 million of funds to each of the public sector teams starting Phase 2.
What we learnt from the first phase of the GovTech Catalyst
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Harry Vos - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK Forms, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Service design, Technology
We finished the experimental first phase of the GovTech Catalyst, which helped us learn where emerging technologies can add value. We learnt this in collaboration with smaller technology companies. In our next phase, we will see prototypes develop into testable products.
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