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 organisation. Emily will be Director of Policy and Engagement at GDS. Emily previously worked at Number 10 as Senior Policy Adviser for Welfare, Employment and Pensions. Emily will be...
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
...the “web platform” as opposed to anything else. Design and sketching was done in code for speed. Google Chrome running in fullscreen mode displays the Heroku page when a connection...
...also work on Assisted Digital, which is profoundly important. All these jobs can be found out on the website: digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/jobs. Interviewer: Until next time. Mike Bracken: Till next time, onwards....
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 …
...focus on users runs throughout the report, "A design approach to public services starts not with service providers but with citizens, customers and service users." Lots of the examples given...
...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 …