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Opening GOV.UK Wallet sandbox to digital verification services 

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Opening GOV.UK Wallet sandbox to digital verification services 

Registered digital verification service (DVS) providers are now able to apply to join the GOV.UK Wallet sandbox.

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Tips on how to set up and maintain your own community

Posted by: Rose Waite, Posted on: 29 August 2018 - Categories: People and skills, Ways of working
Three people at a Product People meetup

...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...

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Hey GOV.UK, what are you doing about voice?

Posted by: Sam Dub - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Mark Hurrell, Posted on: 23 August 2018 - Categories: Digital strategy, GOV.UK
Amazon, Google and Apple voice assistants

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.

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We’ve updated our Social Media Playbook

Posted by: Louise Mullan - former Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 17 August 2018 - Categories: Digital strategy, Ways of working
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...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...

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Building a cross-government service design community

Posted by: Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on: 14 August 2018 - Categories: Service design
A service designer at a cross-government meet-up

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.

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How we use Instagram at GDS

Posted by: Louise Mullan - former Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 3 August 2018 - Categories: GDS team, Ways of working
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...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.  ...

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Engaging UK suppliers in the Global Digital Marketplace

Posted by: Georgina Grant, Posted on: 24 July 2018 - Categories: Global Digital Marketplace
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...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...

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Why GOV.UK content should be published in HTML and not PDF

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 16 July 2018 - Categories: Accessibility, Content design, GOV.UK
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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.

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Creating a single, shared content standard for the Department for Work and Pensions

Posted by: Helen Nickols and Melanie Cannon, Posted on: 13 July 2018 - Categories: Content design
A screen shot of the DWP style guide

...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....

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The importance of content designers in government

Posted by: Laura Billings - former Communities Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 11 July 2018 - Categories: Content design
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"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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GDS across the globe: Where our alumni are now

Posted by: Laura Stevens, Posted on: 6 July 2018 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
GDS Alumni Ross Ferguson, Olivia Neal, Jordan Hatch and Annette Sweeney

Former GDS staff who now work for foreign governments share what they’ve learnt working abroad, what they’ve contributed and discuss GDS’ impact.

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