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.
A new chapter begins. We unveil the name and vision for the new digital centre for government.
I’m James Stewart and I’m one of the Technical Architects working at GDS. Over the past few months I’ve been mainly focussed on the publishing tools and platform that underpin GOV.UK, and in particular on the APIs they use and …
...upcoming projects and building tools to help process some data from the Cabinet Office Emer Coleman from our comms team spoke at the Code For America summit in San Francisco....
...can see how people move through GOV.UK, and Nick will tell you more about that method soon. Smaller, one-to-one methods like lab based testing gives us real, qualitative information about...
There’s a group of people here at GDS working on a programme called IDA - which stands for Identity Assurance. We’re helping develop a secure service that lets people log in to online government services more easily.
...a prototype for how we might use data to improve public services. His number one goal was to initially show how GOV.UK usage data could represent success or failure in...
‘Auto suggest’ was our attempt to second guess the answer a user wants based on the first few letters they type into a GOV.UK search box. We've had several people...
A few months ago I wrote about how we're using search analytics and SEO (or Search Engine Optimisation for all the non-robots out there) to make sure that people get the right answer quickly when they look for government information using …
...would be the easiest way for people to find information, so we promoted that on the homepage. But in testing the site, we started to find something else. Over time...
Today we’ve released some quite big changes to GOV.UK designed to make it easier to find content, and to find your way around. I’m here to to give an overview of what’s changed and why, and then others in the …
It's been just over a year since we began working on the GOV.UK beta website, and accessibility has been an important part of our activity during that time. As expert consultant on the project, I've been working with GOV.UK's accessibility …