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.
GOV.UK - it's all in the name
...official and can be trusted. The Central Office of Information (COI) had responsibility for managing the guidance until late 2011 when the Government Digital Service took over. The original guidance...
Doing the hard work to make things simple
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
Our fourth design principle is "Do the hard work to make it simple”. A team working at the Ministry of Justice have been putting that into action recently, trying to...
The unsung heroes of voter registration
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
Back in June, we launched the live phase of the new Register to vote digital service, number one on our list of transformation exemplars. I can't overstate the importance of...
Meet the IT network team
...growing organisation, that means that the network’s also growing. An exemplar for government Paul Collman We set out trying to build our network environment and build our Macs for a...
Making things open, making things better
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK
...to read government documents people working in government to be able to share their work more easily (we think sharing is a good thing: one of our design principles is...
What’s the design process at GDS?
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GDS team, Service design
...All of the designers can code or are learning to code. We call ourselves the Design Team because it's important to belong to a group with shared skills and experiences....
Prison visit booking: using digital analytics to inform alpha development
...visit booking team used their digital analytics to improve the service design was by uploading the number of slots selected to their digital analytics tool using whats called a custom...
Some interesting things about digital transformation
...together a selection of interesting posts on the subject of digital transformation, starting with a short video introducing the transformation team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkcZMGARsuc Explaining the discovery, beta and alpha phases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX1BT0oxWU...
Making prison visits easier to book
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK
...service has made a real difference. It’s given them a picture of how future prison services could be run. But it’s just a first step along a much longer path....
What we mean when we say "service transformation"
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Transformation
There's a letter that gets sent out to some elderly people who make claims for Carer's Allowance. It opens with these two sentences: We have decided that you meet the...
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