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.
Welcoming DfE and HM Treasury to GOV.UK
This week we welcome the Department for Education and HM Treasury to GOV.UK. Launch of Department for Education DfE is the 22nd department to move to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK. The department joins Inside Government with 1,546 publications, …
Talking heads
One of the updates we’ve made to the Government Service Design Manual is to add video case studies. Video has been one of the best methods we’ve found for quickly and candidly sharing what it’s like to work on a …
Design that Makes a Difference exhibition
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Accessibility, Digital strategy
Last Friday Rebecca Kemp, Joshua Marshall and I visited the opening of the ‘Design that Makes a Difference’ exhibition at the Royal College of Art. Josh is our accessibility lead and Rebecca leads the Assisted Digital programme. Organised as a …
Building a network of trust around the Digital by Default Standard
The first thing you see when you walk into GDS is the 7 main messages which guided the build of the GOV.UK alpha. Visitors to GDS often scribble them down, and like our Design Principles they help provide a shared language for …
This week at GDS
Highlights - this week marks 6 months of GOV.UK, with some great statistics including 187 million visits to the site and 546 million page views since launch. We were really pleased this week to be chosen by the Design Museum …
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
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Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
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, …
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