2016 on the GDS blog
It’s the time of the year for ‘Best-of lists’. In keeping with the season, we’ve been looking back over some of the most popular blog posts of 2016. Here’s a selection.
GDS welcomes 2 new senior hires
Kevin previously wrote about how GDS needs to make a commitment to collaborate with all government departments. This post announces 2 new senior appointments to GDS. Both will play a vital part in making that collaboration happen.
I became a civil servant by accident
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
Playing around with data
The Performance Platform exposes a lot of service data to interested parties, both within government and outside of it. We thought it would be interesting to tap into the platform, pluck out individual pieces of data and present them in …
This week at GDS
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Accessibility, GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation
This week Minister for Government Policy Oliver Letwin came to see the work going on at GDS; the Open Standards Board is meeting, and GDS people are out speaking at DARE London and Government ICT 2.0.
Talent scouting
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 …
Moving on from GDS
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 …
Design and public services
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 "creating cost-effective public services in the 21st century". I was …
Meet the Transformation team
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Graham Higgins - former Senior Digital Media Producer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
We've previously introduced the Finance team and the Hosting and Infrastructure team, and shone the Spotlight on procurement. Now we invite you to find out more about the work of the Transformation team.
A day in the life of a delivery manager
‘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 …
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