...licences which will make renewing your licence a lot easier for users. Kent County Council are using it for the Trading Standards Checked service to allow vetted businesses to pay...
...designs at least every fortnight The ‘Two week rule’. We don't design anything for more than two weeks without watching real end users interacting with it. This means that most...
...work at GDS through a slightly different lens. Listen to users and build for the future Maciej Cegłowski, founder of Pinboard, talked about the uses fandom continues to find for...
...sharing with other agencies across government - and that means we can all benefit from their journey. Follow Mike on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....
...presenting, not for reading The point Matt made in his post was that our slides are simple for a good reason: we want to encourage the audience to pay attention...
...strongly advocated by Martha Lane Fox in her recent review of gov.uk. Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) All departments have embraced social media but FCO deserves special mention for its...
...picture. You can get lost in the wondrous geekiness of it all. So, as much for myself as anyone else, here's a reminder as to why it's so critical that...
Public APIs are a vital feature of the modern web. Whether you're looking at the ecosystem of Twitter and Facebook apps, tools for managing auctions on ebay, or code for...
...the URLs you'll be able to work out how to get it for any date. Similarly all our 'calendar' data (eg. bank holidays) is available in iCal and JSON formats....
...needs, and user stories are the best way to achieve this. That means projects are built on a set of prioritised user stories which are typically expressed in the same...
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