How we’re making it easier to access government forms online
What we learned from user research with the public on completing PDF and online forms.
How we reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK
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Jon Kirwan, Front end developer, GDS and Martin Jones, Front end developer, GDS, Posted on:
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Posts for Tech Specialists
We recently reduced CSS size and improved performance across GOV.UK pages by
moving away from bundling all CSS into a single stylesheet served to all pages to serving smaller stylesheets containing only the necessary styles for each page.
What we mean when we talk about content design
Sarah Richards is Head of Content Design at GDS. We sat down with her recently to ask some simple questions: What is content design? What difference does it make?
New Transport for GOV.UK
You may not have noticed, but we recently changed the bit that says 'GOV.UK' in the black banner that appears across the website.
What kind of things do people ask?
Once in a while we like to raise a flag to highlight the work of the teams in GDS and show how we work. This week Operations Manager Albert Massa tells us how the GOV.UK Helpdesk team helps users get fast …
The end of the beginning for GOV.UK
A project team in GDS is working to make sure GOV.UK can meet the needs of all its users, including specialists and professionals, when it becomes a fully-realised “single domain for government” later this year. Neil Williams, who leads the …
GDS this week: "It's not dumbing down, it's opening up"
Lorena Sutherland, content lead for Office of the Public Guardian on GOV.UK, talks about the Plain English ethos of writing for GOV.UK. Download the poster You can download the poster for from here. Join in the conversation on Twitter @gdsteam, and …
Browser, operating system and screen resolution data for GOV.UK
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, GOV.UK, Technology
(Image courtesy of Guy Moorhouse) Earlier this month I dug into the analytics data to better understand what devices people are using when visiting GOV.UK. I thought I'd also quickly share headline data on what browsers, operating systems and screen resolutions …
When will more people visit GOV.UK using a mobile or tablet than a PC?
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Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
Yesterday the BBC published data showing more people accessing iPlayer via tablet than via computer. This prompted me to update some of the data I gathered for the government's agreed approach to mobile last this time last year. The objective of the UK government's digital …
Half a billion views on GOV.UK
What a great way to say goodbye to 2013 - we exceeded 500,000,000 views on GOV.UK recently - which tells us that you're finding loads of ways to access our services. We'll keep working tirelessly to make things better, and …
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