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.
Writing guidance for the service design manual
The Government Digital Service started out as a small group of people with experience building and running large online services. Since then we’ve grown the team, added lots of smart people, and talked to even more experts from other organisations. …
Welcoming DWP to GOV.UK
Today we welcome the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to GOV.UK. DWP is the 21st department to move to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK. It has joined Inside Government with almost 900 publications, 9 new policies, a host …
GOV.UK wins Design of the Year 2013
Judges unanimously voted for GOV.UK above other category winners including fashion, furniture and architecture, for its "well thought out, yet understated design" - Design Museum design of the year award 16 April 2013 #designsoftheyear
From the centre and here to help
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team
Today we launched the Government Service Design Manual. It sets out the agreed Digital by Default Service Standard, and provides tools, guidance and code to help teams across government achieve it. It meets one of our 14 commitments in the …
The Open Standards Board
In the Open Standards Principles we said that we'd set up an Open Standards Board to help us to decide which open standards to use in government IT. Now that we've published the first 8 challenges on the Standards Hub, …
Delivering Identity Assurance: You must be certified
We need to be sure that before any of the identity assurance framework suppliers begin providing services to departments, they are certified as being capable of delivering proof of identity as defined in the Government's Good Practice Guides.
Search rankings with Google Spreadsheets
As one of the product analysts for GOV.UK, search is my main focus. Recently I built a handy tool to get an overview of Google search results, to help us review and optimise our content. I thought it was worth …
This week at GDS
Highlights this week - a great presentation to all our staff from Adam Bye of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, who've recently moved all their services to GOV.UK, and the completion of further departmental moves including Defra and the Ministry …
Setting the standard
Last month was a really important one for the Digital by Default Service Standard. We launched our beta for one thing. Just as importantly, the Digital Leaders network - the people responsible for driving the digital agenda across government - …
Welcoming Defra and MOJ to GOV.UK
Today we welcome the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Justice to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK.
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