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How GDS is enabling DCMS colleagues to break into coding

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How GDS is enabling DCMS colleagues to break into coding

In November last year, colleagues from DCMS got in touch with us to find out about the work we do with Codebar, a non-profit organisation that runs coding workshops for under-represented people in tech. They wanted to run something similar for colleagues who were interested in learning to code. Here's what happened next.

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Quantitative testing Betagov content and layout

Posted by: Nick Breeze, Posted on: 13 January 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK, Measurement and analytics, Style, content and design

I am Nick Breeze, one of the Senior Insight Managers at GDS and I work in the team responsible for testing content being developed for gov.uk. Recently we completed quantitative usability testing to compare the performance of content and layout …

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Scotland catch the Experimental Prototype bug

Posted by: Tom Loosemore, Posted on: 12 January 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

Yesterday I spent a hugely interesting and informative day meeting colleagues in Glasgow. One of the highlights for me was being able to congratulate David Hall (pictured) from the Scottish Government on the launch of the DirectScot.org experimental prototype two …

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Cookies on the beta

Posted by: Dafydd Vaughan, Posted on: 12 January 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

The use of cookies on websites has become an increasingly hot topic over the past few months. A new EU law - specifically The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (PECR) - requires that websites ask for …

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It's all about the words

Posted by: Sarah Richards, Posted on: 11 January 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK, Style, content and design

When people talk about web design they sometimes take good editorial work for granted. We've already talked about how we are identifying user needs and content titles for gov.uk but this post looks at how we are developing our editorial approach.

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Presentations from #gdslaunch

Posted by: Digital engagement team, Posted on: 9 December 2011 - Categories: GDS team

Following the Minister for the Cabinet Office's keynote at yesterdays launch event  members of the GDS team gave five bite-size presentations introducing the work of GDS.

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Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, opens the new home of the Government Digital Service

Posted by: Mike Bracken, Posted on: 8 December 2011 - Categories: GDS team

We are open for business. We have a new home. It’s taken a few months of incredibly hard work to bring six parts of Government activity into one place, but we’re here now. We’ve had huge support, from Cabinet Office …

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Tackling the Digital Divide

Posted by: James Forrester, Posted on: 2 December 2011 - Categories: GDS team

It has been some time since we last blogged about our work relating to Assisted Digital.  While we’ve been quiet, we have been busy working with our stakeholders to develop our thinking about the Assisted Digital (supporting access to Digital …

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Welcome to Emer Coleman

Posted by: Mike Bracken, Posted on: 1 December 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement, GDS team

I am delighted to welcome Emer Coleman to GDS, as Deputy Director of Digital Engagement. We have always supported digital engagement at GDS, and Emer’s appointment will raise our game as we develop more products and services with partners and …

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What happened at the 2nd AgileTea camp?

Posted by: Abby Peel, Posted on: 29 November 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement, GDS team

Another very well attended AgileTea last Thursday at Cafe Zest! The theme of the session was 'Procure and Deliver', timely given the recent focus on Chris Chant's blog post, the Government's Supplier event on 21 November on how Government wanted to make it …

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Introducing Jordan Hatch

Posted by: Jordan Hatch, Posted on: 18 November 2011 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

Hi, my name is Jordan Hatch, I'm seventeen, and last week I joined the development team working on the gov.uk beta. It's great to be working with so many talented developers on such an innovative project.

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