Join us for Services Week 2026
Join us for Services Week 2026
Services Week 2026 will run from 29 June to 3 July. Learn about this year's theme and how to get involved.
Why showing the thing to everyone is important
...why. We’d left them in the dark and expected them to accept and understand all the details. We could have shown them a prototype. We should have done. Keep it...
It's ok to say what's ok
We're hiring quite a lot of new people at GDS, and that's brilliant because there are so many new brains and new skills and new faces to get to know. It's also difficult. It's difficult for those newcomers to know …
Guest post: my fortnight in GDS
...early to improve them. Perhaps one day all operations staff will be known as user researchers ... Join the conversation on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email...
Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple
Posted by:
Alistair Duggin - former Head of Accessibility, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility
...your service and include them in the design and testing of it. This is all too rarely done. A better approach to accessibility A better approach is to help people...
Guest post - The other side of the table: leading service standard assessments
...a service manager and have represented teams in around a dozen service standard assessments; this post is about what I’ve learned from sitting on the other side of the table....
What government might look like in 2030
Posted by:
Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Digital Service Platforms, Digital strategy, GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills
...we have today that let us collaborate with colleagues or connect with customers in real-time didn’t exist. Back then, you still bought your music on CDs. Even the most visionary...
Doing the hard work to make talks readable
The slides aren't the thing. They're what make you pay attention to the thing.
Thank you, Advisory Board
Posted by:
Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...Ltd Saul Klein – CEO and Founder of LoveFilm Baroness Lane-Fox – Co-Founder of lastminute.com Brian McBride – Chairman of ASOS and former UK Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk Herman Narula...
Data literacy: helping non-data specialists make the most of data science
Data science techniques at the heart of government transformation Data literacy has a vital role to play in developing government policy and in delivering services that meet the needs of...
Communities of people inspiring each other
...like this one and the Government Service Design Manual. There is also a whole heap of knowledge still hidden away in the heads of product managers, service managers, and others...
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