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Sharing the GDS approach with Code for America

Posted by: Emer Coleman - former Deputy Director of Digital Engagement, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 9 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...on a panel chaired by Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, with two great women; Nicole Tecco Reece from Case Commons and Jessica Lord, Code for America Fellow 2012....

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Finding your way around GOV.UK

Posted by: James Weiner, Posted on: 9 October 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

In the past couple of months, we’ve been making it easier to browse the site. I’m going to cover a bit of what we’ve done to improve things and tell...

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Exploring user needs

Posted by: Etienne Pollard, Posted on: 9 October 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

As we build up to the release of GOV.UK next week, it seems like a good moment to reflect on the big idea behind GOV.UK. As ever, it all starts with users.

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Not so special after all

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 9 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

I’m Neil Williams, one of the product managers for GOV.UK. I work on the Inside Government and detailed guidance areas of the site, where practically all government organisations will publish their corporate and in-depth content in future.

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Building with APIs

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 8 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team

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 …

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This week at GDS

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 5 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team

...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....

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Testing GOV.UK with real users

Posted by: Kate Cook, Posted on: 5 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

...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...

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Less About Identity, More About Trust

Posted by: Steve Wreyford, Posted on: 4 October 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login

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.

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Building a performance platform for GOV.UK

Posted by: Max Gadney, Posted on: 3 October 2012 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK

...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...

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Where has ‘auto suggest’ gone?

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 3 October 2012 - Categories: GDS team

‘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...

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