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Service meets innovation: The digital Veteran Card is here

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Service meets innovation: The digital Veteran Card is here

We’ve launched the first digital document to be stored in the GOV.UK One Login app. Learn more about why this is an important milestone for government, the benefits it brings and how it paves the way for the future.

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Making our flooding content watertight

Posted by: Jane Eastwood and Joe Harrison, Posted on: 1 December 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK
A car submerged in the flood

...which was attended by members of the EA content team, content designers working on EA services and a content designer from the Department for Communities and Local Government. We drafted...

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Building better assessments for digital services

Posted by: Trang Erskine - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK Design System, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 30 November 2016 - Categories: Service design
How we're building better assessments

...way to go. We’re approaching the service assessment transformation as we would a digital service transformation. User needs will continue to be identified and validated, and we will continue testing...

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7 things we learnt on our US visit

Posted by: Olivia Neal and Rory Smith, Posted on: 17 November 2016 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms, GDS team, People and skills
A group photo of the attendees of the International Visitors Leadership Program

The US government runs an International Visitors Leadership Program, which brings together future leaders from around the world. The most recent visit was for future digital and technology leaders and GDS was invited to take part. We wanted to share what we learnt.

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How users feel about webchat

Posted by: Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 14 November 2016 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms

Webchat is a support channel where users can talk to advisers through real-time online text chat. We ran an alpha to learn from departments that have been using webchat and to learn what works for users.

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GDS welcomes 2 new senior hires

Posted by: Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 2 November 2016 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

...the organisation. Emily will be Director of Policy and Engagement at GDS. Emily previously worked at Number 10 as Senior Policy Adviser for Welfare, Employment and Pensions. Emily will be...

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Help us give government better data about services

Posted by: Roxanne Asadi, Posted on: 31 October 2016 - Categories: Data, Service design
Front page of the prototype

...identified 3 main useful metrics: the breakdown of transactions per channel, the number of unique users for a service, and the reason a user contacts a service or has to...

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The GDS mission: support, enable and assure

Posted by: Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 26 October 2016 - Categories: Transformation

...Verify is a live service, and growing fast. We’ve hired and trained more people to deliver digital services right across government. I’m proud to be leading an organisation that has...

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National Get Online Week: what we’ve been doing

Posted by: Chad Bond - former Deputy Director for Standards Assurance, Government Digital Service and Jacob Bonwitt, Posted on: 20 October 2016 - Categories: Events, GDS team
2 children looking on to a 3rd child with a virtual reality headset on at Dragon Hall

...basic digital skills free for adults who need extra help. GDS already helps government to create digital services so good that people prefer to use them, and the Service Standard...

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Designing the register creation process

Posted by: Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS and Tom Hughes - Senior Content Designer, Posted on: 18 October 2016 - Categories: Data
Post-it notes showing end to end service flow

When designing services or creating content, we always start by thinking about user needs. We create registers in the same way.

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How the Sexual Health:24 service used GOV.UK patterns

Posted by: Harry Trimble, Posted on: 14 October 2016 - Categories: Service design

...user needs in mind. They considered interactions including: how to tell people what the service is and how to encourage them to use it how to make things discreet by...

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