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.
Create a better user experience by changing the way you write
...They will be able to get through the sentences more quickly and understand what they’re reading. User research should test the copy too At GOV.UK we test our designs and...
GDS blogs round-up
...Dashboards without the need for developer time. On average a new dashboard took us weeks to develop. The app means we can create one in minutes. Student finance: how Conversion...
Designing assisted digital based on research, not assumption
Our eighth design principle is build digital services, not websites. “Our service doesn’t begin and end at our website. It might start with a search engine and end at the...
A short film about accelerated property possession
...in July, this is a great example of what we mean by our 4th design principle: Do the hard work to make it simple. The law might be an old...
The move to GOV.UK: training 1,000 writers
...point out what may be different to what people are used to. Many of these decisions were based on learnings from the user research team at GDS. Observing and iterating...
It's all about trust - auditing local government domains
...analytics tool like Google’s to check how many views your website gets, so you can measure its success and whether it needs an update or refresh finally, you might find...
Happy birthday GOV.UK
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK
...too, constantly teaching us new things, such as: 36% of GOV.UK users now use a mobile device or tablet (compared to 21% back in 2012) 71% of people using calculate...
Building digital civic infrastructure from the ground up
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...tend to be businesses where transporting waste is central to their business. They have to renew their registration once every 3 years. We have about 120,000 of these in total,...
Combining user research and analytics to improve the user experience
Over the last year or so, we’ve been working on moving the websites of 311 government agencies and arms length bodies onto GOV.UK, as part of the transition towards a single online platform for all government services.
When is it ok not to open all source code?
To meet the Digital By Default Service Standard, digital services have to ‘make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences.
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