Not so special after all
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.
Building with APIs
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 …
This week at GDS
...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....
Testing GOV.UK with real users
...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...
Less About Identity, More About Trust
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.
Building a performance platform for 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...
Where has ‘auto suggest’ gone?
‘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...
SEO for GOV.UK
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 …
Why we've changed the homepage
...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...
Introducing today's release
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 …
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