GOV.UK
The 2017 to 2018 GOV.UK roadmap
The 2017 to 2018 GOV.UK roadmap
The goal for GOV.UK in the next financial year is: “make the single domain work harder for users”.
Benchmarking and performance measurement of content transformation
We’re embarking on a huge programme of work to design a single taxonomy and transform our operating model and the content that is published on GOV.UK. The aim of this work is to make it easier for people to find …
Experimenting with containerised infrastructure for GOV.UK
The GOV.UK Infrastructure team maintain and improve the systems that create GOV.UK. This includes the GOV.UK website as well as the tools used by publishers and developers. Earlier this year we ran a discovery and alpha into hosting and deploying …
Making it easier to find help and services abroad
When we first created GOV.UK we did it based on the assumption that users shouldn’t need to know who provides a service to be able to use it. Users just want to complete a task - they shouldn’t have to …
A public API for GOV.UK content: inviting expressions of interest
We’re working to design, document, and prepare to support a public API for GOV.UK content. We are inviting expressions of interest from those who want to publish GOV.UK content elsewhere, or use GOV.UK content to build things, so that we …
The nuts and bolts of a transition project
The Government Digital Service (GDS) Transition team has been an industrious bunch since we formed in September 2016. For a team of just 4 people (2 content designers, a content lead and a policy and engagement manager), we’ve achieved a …
Making better decisions with data
As a performance analyst on GOV.UK, my job is to assess how well the site is performing, and track the effects of changes we put in place. Sometimes people think this mostly involves monitoring trends. That's important, but the interesting …
What we learned from the 5th round of GOV.UK benchmarking
In December 2016 we wrote about our fifth round of benchmarking on GOV.UK. Since the blog post we’ve been analysing and sharing our results across GDS. Although we learned a lot about the specific tasks, we also found out more …
7 hours with the content team: a visit from Dublin
The Health Service Executive (HSE) is the Irish equivalent of the NHS – its purpose is to build a high quality health service for the people of Ireland. Our core values are care, compassion, trust and learning.
Merging our short text templates
We’ve consolidated the templates used by short text content types on GOV.UK.
What do we mean by responsible building?
We’ve been talking a lot in GOV.UK about our need to deliver responsibly through our 2017 to 2018 roadmap. We’re having 4 x 11 week mission periods and we want to ensure that while we deliver at pace, we don’t …