Same name, new ambitions
Same name, new ambitions
A new chapter begins. We unveil the name and vision for the new digital centre for government.
Giving clear presentations
Like ‘bunting in the office’ and ‘cake on release days’, ‘slides with big words’ has become one of GDS’s hallmarks. A few weeks on from Sprint 16 I wanted to write about why we encourage that.
Guest post: looking at the different ways to test content
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Christine Cawthorne and Emileigh Barnes, Posted on:
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Content design, User research
...rely on websites to conduct research, fill out tax forms, read the news. We know good content when we see it, and we’re frustrated when we don’t. Keeping this in...
Building the service manager community
Eddie Davies is a service manager at Land Registry. Today he shares the experiences of the first cross-government service manager community meeting. Last week around 40 service managers and colleagues...
An open letter to our new Advisory Board
Posted by:
Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...help us because you believe in the same things that we believe. We summarise those things in our Design Principles. We are agile. We put users first. Our first few...
An open address register
Posted by:
Paul Maltby - former Director of Data, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data
The government will provide up to £5 million to develop options for an authoritative address register that is open and freely available.
Getting from data to registers
Posted by:
Ade Adewunmi - former Head of Data Infrastructure, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms
...register.gov.uk domain. It will work with the register custodians who are responsible for running registers and are the domain experts, to ensure that the data in their registers is modelled...
Digital principles for a better GDS
We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.
GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events
Posted by:
Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GDS team, People and skills
...discussion of two or more people unless there is at least one woman on the panel, not including the chair. (Yes, that comes from Owen Barder's Pledge). In future, no-one...
Guest post: building a digital standard for local government
Posted by:
Phil Rumens - Digital Services Manager, West Berkshire Council, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Service design
Phil Rumens is the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council and the vice-chair of LocalGov Digital. In this post, he talks about creating a Local Government Digital Standard.
Let's talk about service patterns
Posted by:
Lou Downe - former Director for Design and Service Standards, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Service design
...government services. From the typography we use to the way we ask a user to complete a form, design patterns guide us. These patterns help us to create a consistent,...
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