As GOV.UK Forms moves into public beta, find out what we’ve done so far, what we’re doing next and how you can get involved and start building your own forms on the platform.
EDIT: In response to the comments we have received we thought it would be helpful to explain up-front that we will be extending our testing so people will be able to take part wherever they live around the world when …
This week, Kathy Settle, Director of Digital Policy and Departmental Engagement, looks back on GOV.UK's one year birthday and talks about the public beta release of the Carers Allowance service. Follow Kathy on twitter: @Kathy_Settle
Last week GDS helped launch new guidance for securely using 11 common desktop and mobile operating systems in public sector organisations. CESG (the UK government’s National Technical Authority for information assurance) have led this, working closely with the team in …
A few weeks back, we were chatting about the architecture of the Individual Electoral Registration web service. We started discussing the pros and cons of an approach that would provide a significantly different interaction for any people not running JavaScript. "What …
This week we released a performance dashboard for the service to get a lasting power of attorney - a complicated transaction which is pushing and pulling our dashboards into new areas. Are you, like me, worried about your ongoing capacity …
It's been a busy week at GDS, but this afternoon we took a few minutes out to celebrate the first birthday of GOV.UK. I wrote a bit this morning on the Inside GOV.UK blog about what the year has meant …
This week, Mike Beaven, Director of Transformation at GDS, reflects on the first year anniversary of GOV.UK and the progress made on the exemplar transformation programme. Follow Mike on twitter: @MichaelCBeaven
A couple of weeks ago, the team who worked on the visit visa alpha for the Home Office came in to GDS to talk about how it went. We asked Katy Arnold and Chris Atherton to explain a bit more …
This week, Kathy Settle, GDS' Director of Digital Policy and Departmental Engagement, talks about our biggest day of traffic to GOV.UK since launch, news of an award nomination for the Office of the Public Guardian and welcomes visitors from Identity Assurance programmes worldwide …
The Government Digital Strategy described a new role crucial for helping create digital services so good that people choose to use them - the service manager. We’ve started an induction and development programme for those people, prototyping and learning as …
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