How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
What we learned from user research with the public on completing PDF and online forms.
Government documents - understanding what users need
Last December we asked for your help in selecting the standard formats for documents produced by the government. We published two challenges on the Standards Hub - challenges are problems that open standards might help to solve. Publishing these on …
Browser, operating system and screen resolution data for GOV.UK
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, GOV.UK, Technology
(Image courtesy of Guy Moorhouse) Earlier this month I dug into the analytics data to better understand what devices people are using when visiting GOV.UK. I thought I'd also quickly share headline data on what browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions …
Sprint 14 - Showcasing digital public services - simpler, clearer, faster
On Wednesday 29 January 2014, Sprint 14 will be taking place in London. We’ve invited Ministers, civil servants, suppliers and the media along to the event which will showcase some major new digital public services for the first time. https://instagram.com/p/jrjzIRJ8eR/
What is identity assurance?
Identity assurance is a new service that will give people a secure and convenient way to sign in to government services.
A new home for the GDS blog
This morning we moved the GDS blog over to the GOV.UK blogging platform. You might notice a few changes to the way the site looks and works, including a new URL. The move is an important one for us, as …
Going ‘live’ with the Service Standard
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Mark McLeod - former Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
The Digital by Default Service Standard has been running as a beta for almost a year now, but formally comes into force in April. Now that we’ve run over 40 assessments, we thought it was time to summarise what we’ve …
A checklist for digital inclusion - if we do these things, we’re doing digital inclusion
As with most of our work at the Government Digital Service, we release things early for review and comment. The digital inclusion team, set up last year, would like to share and get your feedback on an alpha version of …
Iterating our support for service managers
Just before Christmas we released dates for the next four cohorts on GDS’s Service Manager Induction and Development Programme.
What are we doing about accessibility?
Joshua Marshall is Head of Accessibility at GDS. Just before Christmas, we sat him down for a short chat about his work. In Joshua’s opinion, the single most important thing GDS has done to improve accessibility across government is “change …
When will more people visit GOV.UK using a mobile or tablet than a PC?
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
Yesterday the BBC published data showing more people accessing iPlayer via tablet than via computer. This prompted me to update some of the data I gathered for the government's agreed approach to mobile last this time last year. The objective of the UK government's digital …
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