The transition team are the people responsible for helping hundreds more agencies and organisations move their websites onto GOV.UK. They’ve started blogging about that work, and I wanted to explain a bit more about what that work means for GDS.
This week news of an office move at GDS, as well as new developments on open standards and the launch of Go ON North East. Rewired State are holding a...
We set up an Open Standards Board last April to help us decide which open standards to use in government technology. Selecting and implementing open standards will make our services better and give us more flexibility in choosing our suppliers. …
...also work on Assisted Digital, which is profoundly important. All these jobs can be found out on the website: digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/jobs. Interviewer: Until next time. Mike Bracken: Till next time, onwards....
...those of you who don’t know, Cape Town will be the World Design Capital for 2014. So, similar to other great cultural and sporting events, there’s one for design and...
...visit It was especially useful to speak to front-line staff and directly observe them delivering a service to customers. Their experiences in dealing with customers and their insights about older...
...been rewritten as a static site generated with Python, with some front-end functionality provided by JavaScript. As with most GDS products, the code is open-source and freely available on GitHub....
Last week, several members of the GDS team decamped to the south coast for the Brighton Digital Festival, in particular to the one-day conference dConstruct. Now in its ninth year, it’s gained quite a reputation for giving brilliant speakers a …
Mike Beaven talks about the latest quarterly update to the Transactions Explorer and welcomes cross-government heads of communications, whose monthly meeting is being hosted by GDS this week.
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 …
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