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Local services and GOV.UK

Posted by: Dafydd Vaughan, Posted on: 14 February 2012 - Categories: GOV.UK

An important design rule of GOV.UK is to hide complexity, so if we are being truly user-centric, people should not need to understand the structure of government to be able to access services. Search data tells us that when people …

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Building APIs, building on APIs

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 22 September 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, Technology

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 embedding Youtube videos in a blog post, clear ways of …

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