A GDS Story 2011
...An early prototype for the GOV.UK beta homepage Another prototype page for the GOV.UK beta, this shows the page for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) Another new starter in August was...
Search results for VIPREG2024 promo code for 1xbet free bet Portugal
A GDS Story 2020
...for National Statistics (ONS), Government Office For Science and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The new strategy outlined how companies and organisations can use data to...
GDS this week: "It's not dumbing down, it's opening up"
...poster for from here. Join in the conversation on Twitter @gdsteam, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts. Transcript Lorena Sutherland: I'm Lorena Sutherland and I'm the content...
Why we blog in government: Blog Camp 2017
When I was preparing my talk for this year’s Blog Camp – a capability building event for blog editors across government – I came across a slide from one of...
From the centre and here to help
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Digital strategy, GDS team
...adapt them. The service design manual is now doing the same job for the next big challenge - transforming public services. Government now has a clear set of guidelines for...
How rewriting text messages can help services to save money
Posted by:
Karl Chillmaid - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify, Transformation
...if simplistic - way to measure if a text message provides good value for money. For example, if you cut 1 character from a 460-character message, you reduce the cost...
How sharing helps us improve digital services
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Transformation
...to scale up if the project was ever expanded. Border Force staff had to use a clunky, non-intuitive and fiddly interface to process applications. Making things better for users Like...
How GDS is enabling DCMS colleagues to break into coding
...with Codebar, a non-profit organisation that runs coding workshops for under-represented people in tech. We met to have a chat. DCMS wanted to run something similar – informal meet-ups for...
How we reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK
Posted by:
Jon Kirwan, Front end developer, GDS and Martin Jones, Front end developer, GDS, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Posts for Tech Specialists
...Firstly, users might have downloaded CSS for unvisited pages. For example, the homepage previously loaded CSS for 24 components yet, aside from commonly used styles (included in the static stylesheet),...
Defra's opening up its data
Posted by:
Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Technology
...what opening up Defra’s data could achieve. Parts of the LIDAR data set, for example, have been available for free non-commercial use since late 2013. That data set’s re-release as...
Related content and links
Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
Leading Government Digital and Data
