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.
What we learned from user research with the public on completing PDF and online forms.
A few months ago Ben Terrett, Russell Davies and I were asked to give a brief to Goldsmiths BA Design course. Matt Ward, the programme leader, contacted us to give the students an opportunity to work on a ‘real life’ …
Mike Beaven talks about the Sprint Alpha conference where we welcomed the Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, the Head of the Civil Service, Sir Bob Kerslake, and Permanent Secretaries of the transacting Departments to discuss progress to date …
For the last six months GDS has been helping government transform public services, making them so good that people prefer to use them. Yesterday, at Sprint Alpha, we gave our first progress report to Ministers, Civil Service leaders and more …
Today we’re publishing our second quarterly progress report on the commitments made in the Government Digital Strategy.
G-Cloud moved across to GDS at the beginning of June. This ground-breaking way for the public sector to buy IT services as commodities was set up by Chris Chant, and then later implemented more fully by Denise McDonagh and her team. Since taking …
Today we published another important update to the Government Service Design Manual to help departments recruit and retain staff with new digital skills. This is one of the services the new GDS Recruitment Hub is offering departments. Increasingly we need to …
Mike Bracken discusses the launch of the digital services framework, digital capability as part of the Civil Service Reform One Year On report and the SPRINT Alpha event next week. David Rennie from the ID Assurance team visited the Cloud …
Following Louis Hyde’s blog post about the Digital Service framework on 9 July, we’ve received a few questions. The framework has been a collaborative team effort between GDS and the Government Procurement Service (GPS) and so Kris Ross, the GPS …
Now that the application process for our new Digital Services Framework has opened, we thought it would be useful to say a bit more about what it is. What's a framework, you ask? It’s a list of suppliers who’ve been …
Highlights: This week the Office of the Public Guardian released a beta for the Lasting Power of Attorney. We attended Civil Service Live and spoke on Digital by Default, G-Cloud and GOV.UK. Mike Bracken met Mark Sedwell the new Home …