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.
For almost the first time, we are using conversion funnel data to improve government transactions. The comparisons between services are fascinating. When you are browsing books on Amazon, the pages are full of links. Want to see a bigger picture …
Back in May of this year I tweeted about how impressed I was that London-based agency ustwo had released an update to their "Pixel Perfect Precision" handbook, which included a new section on accessibility. The handbook, written so that new …
Last night GDS hosted the first in a series of events to increase awareness, and participation in, the open standards process. It was held at The Hub, a venue in Kings' Cross. We want your help to identify the specific open standards …
Blogging makes it easier for government to talk about its work, share information and ideas, and connect with those with a common concern. A few months ago, we launched the new GOV.UK blogging platform - which is designed to help …
Mike Beaven talks the report Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger: Remaking government for the digital age, an upcoming Digital Advisory Board meeting, Thursday's Open Standards event, and more.
Today we are happy to announce an exciting new phase in the Identity Assurance Programme as we develop user-focused identity services for exemplar transactions as part of the transformation of government digital services. Five of the Identity Providers on the …
Over the past two weeks, the assisted digital project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design has evolved from understanding the reasons that older people are either not online at all or are only partially online, to developing ideas for …
Getting user research into agile teams in a way that is timely, relevant and actionable is a challenge that teams the world over are tackling. Working effectively in agile has recently been the driver of some fairly significant changes to …
Here at GDS, agile thinking and techniques inform how we do what we do, this extends from delivering projects, programmes and the GDS portfolio of work. I've been working with a team of people to implement and run an agile …
At the start of the month I went out to Sebastopol, California, for Foo Camp. It was a feast of good conversations; a great opportunity to share and get feedback on the work we're doing at GDS, and to talk …
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