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Insights from the first five months of the GOV.UK app public beta

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Insights from the first five months of the GOV.UK app public beta

The GOV.UK App went live in public beta in July. Find out what's been happening in the first 5 months, and what's coming next.

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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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Platform as a Service team takes even-handed approach to meetings

Posted by: Dan Carley, Posted on: 7 October 2016 - Categories: Accessibility, GDS team
The Platform as a Service team using hand gestures

...we’ve found to be effective. If you’re team adopts any other approaches, please share in the comments. Follow GDS on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....

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Management by the team, not the managers

Posted by: Giles Turnbull, Posted on: 30 September 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Members of the People Board having a chat at a computer

The People Board is elected by everyone in GDS, and is empowered to decide things and delegate tasks to other people and teams in GDS. This is how it works.

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Being transgender at GDS

Posted by: Laura Martin, Posted on: 28 September 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
The transgender flag

...that I wanted to transition full time to live my life as a woman rather than as a man. During 2015 I had come out as transgender to everyone outside...

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Introduction to the new induction

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 23 September 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Showing new starters the Trello board

A good induction should feel like checking into a beautifully designed 5-star hotel. You should be greeted on arrival and someone should be there to pre-empt any questions. They should...

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It takes 2: how we use pair writing

Posted by: Sue Davis, Posted on: 21 September 2016 - Categories: Content design, People and skills
Subject expect in control of the writing while the content designer looks at the same screen and helps to simplify the language.

I’m Sue. As a content designer at GDS, it’s my job to write content for everyone. This means I write in the simplest way to help our users do things...

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Welcoming our new minister

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 16 September 2016 - Categories: GDS team

...introductory discussions about the Digital Marketplace, Common Technology Services, and Data Registers In a quick Q&A with GDS staff, the minister reiterated the importance of rebuilding the relationship between citizen...

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What’s new with the Service Manual?

Posted by: Elena Findley-de Regt, Posted on: 14 September 2016 - Categories: Service design
Hummingbird mission patch to celebrate the Service Manual passing its beta assessment

It’s been a few months since we last posted here about the Service Manual, the best place to find guidance and tools for government service teams. Here's an update.

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Unconference: setting our own agenda for the latest all-staff meeting

Posted by: Claire Donaldson, Posted on: 9 September 2016 - Categories: Events, GDS team, People and skills
The board we put out for Unconference ideas, with sticky notes on it

We hold all-staff meetings to share what we’ve achieved and talk about what we’ll be doing next. People wanted to try an ‘unconference’ so everyone could get more involved.

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