GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership
GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership
An update about GOV.UK Wallet and our engagement with the technology sector.
Second round of GovTech Catalyst challenges revealed
A look at the next 5 successful challenges to get funding and the public sector problems the Catalyst hopes to solve.
Tips on how to set up and maintain your own community
...greet on the day - you need a minimum of 2 people for this: one in the room and one to collect people in reception Step 4 – Publicise your...
Hey GOV.UK, what are you doing about voice?
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Sam Dub - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Mark Hurrell, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GOV.UK
With almost a quarter of all search queries on Android devices currently spoken, here's more detail on the work we've been doing to meet the emerging needs of voice assistant users and make government more accessible.
We’ve updated our Social Media Playbook
Posted by:
Louise Mullan - former Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Ways of working
...platforms have developed, meant the playbook was due another update. We deliberately kept this published as a playbook, “a notional range of possible tactics in any sphere of activity”, so...
Building a cross-government service design community
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Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Service design
There are around 50 service designers currently working across government. Here's how we set up our community to talk about our work, share ideas and spot opportunities for collaboration - and how you can join in.
How we use Instagram at GDS
Posted by:
Louise Mullan - former Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, Ways of working
...Readers can ask our team questions to find out more about their role. You can follow this series on the GDS Instagram page. Subscribe to this blog for updates. ...
Engaging UK suppliers in the Global Digital Marketplace
...looking for a small team to help create content for the launch of the playbook, to be showcased at the annual OECD conference in October in Seoul. The playbook will...
Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF
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Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, Content design, GOV.UK
We're not huge fans of PDFs on GOV.UK. We hope this post will help publishers explain to colleagues the problems with using them and support moving towards an HTML-first culture.
Creating a single, shared content standard for the Department for Work and Pensions
...and improving content: old technology, legacy content and the lack of a system capturing changes to offline content such as letters. Changes can also be hard and expensive to make....
The importance of content designers in government
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Laura Billings - former Communities Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design
"Content designers translate difficult concepts into easy to understand content." "We help people get the information they need, in the way they need it." "Without content designers, government would be...
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