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.
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...
Weekend links: more Lego, lessons learned, DVSA and more
...it comes to sharing code between projects. We liked this post about using graphic design to make learning maths easier. The guys from FutureGov have written about their local government...
When to use caps around GOV.UK
Why do we write GOV.UK in capitals? And why is the URL written lower-case? You may well have heard the reasons, but we've never actually written them down. Let's fix that now.
Just doodling: telling the story with a few pen strokes
One thing visitors to the GDS office can't help noticing is the colourful selection of cartoons and doodles stuck on the walls.
Weekend links: hackathons, time travel, glow-in-the-dark motorways and more
...busy helping anglers report their catch to the government - and they've been using agile to do it. Some clever folks in the Netherlands have developed light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings...
User needs and revolutions
In 2010, Martha Lane Fox (the UK’s Digital Champion at the time) completed her review of the government’s web offering.
Weekend links: Next Generation Testing, UK Trade and Investment, and more
...interesting speakers at the Data Storytelling event at the National Audit Office this week. The BIS Internal Communications team were in attendance. Don't forget to sign up to email alerts....
GOV.UK hosting - simpler, clearer, faster
...Walker: @rjw1 Anna Shipman: @annashipman Brad Wright: @bradwright Carl Massa: @massacarl Albert Massa (Operations Manager for GOV.UK): @awmassa Don't forget to sign up for email alerts. Transcript On 25 March...
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