Making GOV.UK more than a website
...powered by open standards markup we’ve added to the site. What we did We added what’s known as structured data markup. This allows website publishers to provide detailed information about...
Podcast: Mental wellbeing at GDS
...mental wellbeing in the workplace: be bold, be open, have champions and have a forum to talk. You can follow Ben on Twitter. You can subscribe to the GDS podcast...
Transforming GOV.UK: the future of digital public services
...nearly 2,000 government websites and combined them into a single site. GOV.UK is now the government’s trusted online communications and public services channel. We support nearly 14 million visitors a...
Measuring the climate impact of our digital services at GDS
...use data centres from various companies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS). We decided to find out how our data centres source their electricity, and how much CO2 they produce through...
Podcast: The International Design in Government community
...writer at GDS, speaks to 2 of the founding members of this community – Kara Kane, Community Lead for User-Centred Design at GDS and Martin Jordan, Head of Service Design...
What it’s like to be part of the DDaT Fast Stream and how you can apply
...and assurance lead at GDS. And, I’m about to go on secondment for 6 months to the charity Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, to work on digital strategy. Below, I talk...
#Sprint19 live blog: 19 September 2019
#Sprint19 is about to begin – welcome to our live blog, which we will be updating throughout the day. Make sure you bookmark this page and come back to it to see what’s been happening.
How we support service design across government
Service design is an established role in government. In this post, Martin Jordan, Head of Service Design at GDS, gives an overview of the various formats of support and activities available to people working on improving public services in the UK.
Developing a learning approach for the content design profession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwwKbjFQRs The content community team is working to build effective, adaptable and scalable learning experiences for content designers across the public sector. We're doing this work so that the content...
A public service odyssey
Alison Pritchard was named interim Director General of the Government Digital Service in August 2019. In this post, Alison shares her journey in government so far and talks about what she's looking forward to delivering in the next few months.
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