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.
Trying to keep it simple? It’s complicated
...Please sign up to our user research to help us shape the new Digital Marketplace. Follow the Digital Marketplace on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....
Weekend links: vCloud, Darwin database, proof of concept and more
...this week - find out why on the data blog. Reviewing design work is never easy - but these ten questions are a pretty good start. Last week marked the...
Open Policy Making and Digital - a happy coupling
Find out what happened at our latest Open Policy Making event, co-hosted with the Government Digital Service. You can read more about what Open Policy Making is and what it looks like in practice on our new blog: https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/
Reading the digital revolution
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK
...Control, and The Shirky Principle by Kevin Kelly Motivation, Agency and Public Policy by Julian Le Grand The Agile Manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond Government...
Weekend links: Instagram, filtered search, cyclotrons and more
...work. https://instagram.com/p/nvsdtFyo4p/# Filtered search is changing the way we can use GOV.UK - meet our first finders on Inside GOV.UK. The GDS content designers and writers were inspired by...
Over 50 million visits and other data stories
Posted by:
Peter Jordan - former Head of Performance Analysis, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Data
...was a Bank Holiday. Of course, like any ‘league table’, GOV.UK’s position is also influenced by the performance of other sites. Its usual neighbours are banks, ISPs’ sites and some...
Releasing all the things: a good day for the Performance Platform
Yesterday we released 83 dashboards. We wouldn’t normally plan to release like this.
Weekend links: International Space Station, more hackathons, GDS Technology, and more
...website transition over to GOV.UK. And finally, one of our favourite things this week is the NASA live stream from the International Space Station. Don't forget to sign up...
Using A/B testing to make things better
...up so that people could get there easier and quicker. We ran an A/B test where we compared one design - a new design - to the old design. The...
Updated assisted digital guidance in the Government Service Design Manual
Posted by:
Ben Carpenter - former Assisted Digital & Digital Take Up Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accessibility, Service design
...to support their plans. Assessors have a set of prompts for assessments at each phase of service design, helping them to get the best information from the service manager about...
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