2016 on the GDS blog
...Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple In May, Alistair Duggin blogged about the work he’d started on making GOV.UK accessible. He explained how he wanted to ensure people...
...Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple In May, Alistair Duggin blogged about the work he’d started on making GOV.UK accessible. He explained how he wanted to ensure people...
...the relationship between citizen and state. This week I’m happy to announce 2 new senior appointments to GDS. Both will play a vital part in making that collaboration happen. Arif...
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
...photo-bomb a few big GDS occasions so far, including.... The Cabinet Office meeting, lurking on iPads. The Open Government Partnership summit. And, most recently, during a visit from the Korean...
...Letwin, who is the Minister for Public Policies, probably the deepest thinker around how government works. He came over to see GDS. He had a good tour, so Identity, and...
Today we published another important update to the Government Service Design Manual to help departments recruit and retain staff with new digital skills. This is one of the services the new GDS Recruitment Hub is offering departments. Increasingly we need to …
I've been Creative Lead on the design team at GDS for the last two years, and I'm really thrilled about my next step. On Monday I'm joining the design team at Twitter. I've been asked to write a blog post …
Yesterday saw the publication of Restarting Britain 2 a report by the Design Commission part of the Associate Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group. The report looks at design's role in...
...the Transformation team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkcZMGARsuc Meet the Transformation team - video transcript Mike Beaven (Transformation Programme Director, Government Digital Service): The Transformation team really operates as an internal consultancy that goes...
‘A day in the life of...’ articles typically go something like this, “8:02: my day starts with a walk over Waterloo Bridge. A flat white later and I'm ready to begin. Some quiet minutes to check emails before studying the …