GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership
GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership
An update about GOV.UK Wallet and our engagement with the technology sector.
A big week for Companies House
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK, Transformation
...designed summary of public information about that company: its status, registered address, names of directors and secretaries, and a list of filing dates. It’s an impressive start on an important...
Code Club at the Palace
...writing his first piece of code, and school children visiting No 10 to take part in the #HourofCode event. Not to be outdone, here's Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude...
Code Club at GDS
...Once seen as the exclusive domain of the stereotypical 'bedroom coder', it's great that the last few years has made code more accessible than ever before. Learning to code isn't...
Our GDS user research lab is 6 months old
When we were designing and building our user research lab, we learned a lot about how best to build one. During the past 6 months of running our lab, we've learned even more.
Simpler Carer's Allowance digital service now live
Posted by:
Steve Wood - Service Manager for GovWifi, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Transformation
...other strife that’s going on in their lives, being able to claim Carer’s Allowance should be the least of their worries. Kathryn Baxendale, Subject Matter Expert Carer’s Allowance Digital Service...
How we organise our film production team
...camera, recording the sound, setting up the lights and designing motion graphics, editing footage is a skilled job that can take years to learn. Our camera people double as editors...
Digital Marketplace: building a digital by default service
...its design and build. All new or redesigned digital services being built in government need to meet the digital by default service standard. Services processing or likely to process over...
Create a better user experience by changing the way you write
...on the page - you wouldn’t be able to use it. We’ve written some guidance if you’re writing help text for transactions. When we test transactions we start with little...
GDS blogs round-up
...mean code must be perfect. In fact, it shouldn’t be: the majority of time should be spent iterating the design, not making code beautiful. Prototypes are made to be tested...
Designing assisted digital based on research, not assumption
...It’s important to understand the context in which users are accessing our digital service. The prison visit booking team surveyed over 2,200 callers to the booking lines. They’ve used the...
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