Explaining government policy on GOV.UK
As departments move from publishing on separate websites to publishing on GOV.UK, each of them will be contributing to a comprehensive set of web pages that explain government policies clearly, consistently, and all in one place. Doing this is difficult, …
Showing people around Inside government
As one of the editors working on Inside government, visiting departments to introduce people to the platform can be really rewarding. Last month I went to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to help them with their final preparations …
Designing for the long read on Inside Government
At GDS we intend the web to be the primary platform for publishing things like policy, speeches and detailed guidance, with any print documents taking a supporting role. As a consequence legibility online becomes hugely important, because the reader will …
Learning alongside the Inside Government team
...the work we do and for the Department for Transport on a wider basis. We publish a lot of statistics about the work we do, and about driving tests, and...
Updating the GOV.UK Performance Dashboard
...yet still provide the detail when you need it. Example of hover on our daily visitors graph There’s another bonus to having these hovers - they encourage people to interact...
A little blog on the side - Inside Inside Government
In several recent posts about the upcoming release of Inside Government we’ve linked in passing to this little blog on the side - a Tumblr (update: the Tumblr is no longer in use by GDS) where we, the product team …
This week at GDS
...its release, and pushed out an updated version of the Child Benefit Tax Calculator this week. Screenshot of the Child Benefit Tax Calculator On Wednesday the Communications team met with...
Iterating the trade tariff tool with HMRC
One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and the EU. The tool lets …
Publishing the Digital Strategy as a website, rather than on one
I’m Andrew Francis and I’m a policy professional. So is my colleague Sheila Bennett. You might not have heard much from our profession here on the GDS blog recently, but...
Have I got government news for you?
...were asked how many government websites they visited for news. Just under half (49%) said they visited between 1 - 5 sites, 35% said they only ever visited one, while...
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