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.
Visualising Foreign Travel Advice
...is shaded dark grey if there has been an unexpectedly large number of people looking at the ‘Contact Foreign Travel Advice Team’ section, as this could indicate that information is...
Security, clarity and the style guide
...be re-used for policy work. In other words, the principles matched our own aspirations for security policy. We organised a workshop to look at how we could improve things and...
This week at GDS
...that I’ll probably just pick out, who are both coming into the user research team. One of them is Teresa Randall; she currently works at DECC, actually; our Department of...
Open Standards show and tell
...which evaluates the proposals and advises the Open Standards Board At the show and tell we’ll go through each of these activities and explain what will happen with your input,...
How the new GOV.UK homepage is performing
We introduced a new version of the GOV.UK homepage a few weeks ago, and since then we’ve collected lots of data about what’s working and what improvements we can make. We thought we’d share some of the headlines here. You …
Designing assisted digital with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
We’ve started a project with the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design about how assisted digital support can meet the needs of older people. Peter Ziegler is leading the project and is a specialist in design research in older people and …
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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...recruitment. One of the big things this week, the big milestones, is getting the recruitment hub working to bring new digital talent into government. We’re recruiting all over the place,...
Learning from assessments
We've learnt a lot about assessing services over the last few months. James Kemp, acting Service Manager for passport appointment booking at HM Passport Office, attended one of the early assessments and we asked him to write about the experience. …
Organ donation and A/B testing
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
Some user needs are easier to meet than others. It doesn't take much research to confirm that most people searching for 'bank holiday' care most about when they can next...
Digital learning day
A couple of weeks ago, at Manchester TechHub, we held our first digital learning day for the Technology in Business (TiB) Fast Stream; one of the fast stream schemes helping to create digital leaders of the future. The day was …
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