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.
Weekend links
...design blog asks: how do people use related links? If you want to apply for the civil service fast track apprenticeship scheme you have until Wednesday 19th. The National Archives...
How to find all the maps published on GOV.UK
Government does a lot of stuff with maps, and if you like maps you might like to know about this clever trick for finding every single one that gets published on GOV.UK. Start off at the Publications page, which by …
Sharing Sprint 14
With Sprint 14 now behind us, we wanted to share Baroness Martha Lane Fox's opening speech, and the presentations and workshops given on the day. Martha used her talk to remind everyone how far we've already come in our mission …
Striking a balance between security and usability
Last year our boss Mike Bracken talked at the Code for America Summit in San Francisco, and spoke about the need to strike a balance between usability and security. There is a point beyond which over-zealous security gets in the …
Improving GOV.UK on mobile devices
Mobile use on GOV.UK has increased significantly since launch in October 2012, moving from around 15% to 23% of the overall audience.
Looking back at Sprint 14
We made two short videos for Sprint 14 that give you a little glimpse into the work being done by teams all over the country to transform services. Both show what it's like to be working on the exemplars, but …
GDS visits UKGovcamp
...London. Find out more at: http://www.ukgovcamp.com/ Transcript Jeremy Gould, Founder UKGovcamp I spent 2006 and 2007 meeting lots of really interesting people around government and around the outskirts of government,...
GOV.UK page performance: are we fulfilling our content goals?
In the content team we’ve developed new theme dashboards that give us a page-level indication of GOV.UK mainstream content performance. These dashboards are useful to everyone in GDS, as GOV.UK user data can reveal how people interact with government services, …
Publishing Digital Service Assessments
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Mark McLeod - former Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Service design
The Digital by Default Service Standard comes into full force in April this year. We’ve been running assessments for a while now, and as with the services we assess, we’re also looking to continuously improve the assessment process itself with …
200 days of transformation, 200 days to go
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint, Transformation
We set an ambitious challenge at Sprint 13; transform government in just 400 working days. Today Sprint 14 marked the halfway point, and the results are terrific; the transformation programme has wrapped up its discovery phase four public betas have …
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