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.
Building the standard
...managers and their teams. It also introduced project pages where service managers could record their progress and share their learnings: Guides and toolkits were stored on Github, then synced into...
Intranets: DCMS doing it right
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...the site to be responsive to different screen sizes, using open standards. They launched the beta early, despite knowing it still had rough edges, because nothing beats real feedback from...
This week at GDS
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...the Digital Engagement team here at GDS. She'll be missed, and we all wish her the very best of luck. We’ll be updating this post with a transcript in the...
Design and public services
...focus on users runs throughout the report, "A design approach to public services starts not with service providers but with citizens, customers and service users." Lots of the examples given...
Beta testing the Service Standard
...and teams building services. It ranges from introductions to agile development to extremely specific colour palettes, all gleaned from the work teams at GDS have been doing. It’s wide-ranging, but...
Of the web, not on the web
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team
...Digital As we move away from a large procurement approach to technology and become adept at commissioning and co-delivering digital public services our capability profile needs to change technically, and...
Identity Alphas
Identity Assurance is made up of many different areas of work, as you'd expect of a complex programme. Whether they're focused on business processes, security, commercial models, government standards or anything else, they all share the common goal of producing …
We're not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all.
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GDS team
We’re in the middle of a significant change in how people use digital services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is exploding. People should be able to use digital services wherever they are, on the device of …
Interesting browser stats
One of the GDS design principles is 'design with data'. Front end developers need to know what the current browser landscape looks like and in which browsers they should be regularly testing new features. To help us do that, I created …
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...to see that structural reform happening, because that data set will become one of the key planks of a data economy. So well done BIS and well done Royal Mail....
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