A bold new look for the GOV.UK homepage
A bold new look for the GOV.UK homepage
We’re making some changes to the GOV.UK homepage. Find out why and what’s coming next.
Undertaking GOV.UK's largest software infrastructure project
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Nila Patel, Senior Delivery Manager, GOV.UK and Chris Banks, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes
The team moved GOV.UK to a container based platform, which makes GOV.UK more secure, easier to scale and eliminates repetitive tasks for developers.
How we developed GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
Find out how we developed our GOV.UK growth strategy, and the data, techniques and tools that we used.
Making it easier to add images on GOV.UK
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Nikin Nagewadia, Senior Interaction Designer, GOV.UK, Daniel Karaj, Senior Frontend Developer, GOV.UK and Mike Whitehouse, Senior Product Manager, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes, What we're working on
We’ve reduced the time and effort it takes to publish content with images on GOV.UK. Here’s why and how we did it.
Updating GOV.UK when there is a machinery of government change
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Esther Woods, Content Designer, GOV.UK Content team, Isabel Attwood, Content Designer, GOV.UK Content team and Imogen Rowley, Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK Content team, Posted on:
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How we work, What we're working on
You might’ve spotted a change in the number of government departments. Here’s how we supported this change, updated GOV.UK to reflect it and what we learned from doing so.
Responding to the changing user needs of the COVID-19 landing page
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Nathalie Carter, Content Designer, GOV.UK and Lina Nilsson, Senior Service Designer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Content, Finding things, User insights
As the subject of over 100,000 Google searches a month, we know people are still looking to GOV.UK for information on coronavirus. So when we discovered the page was not meeting changing user needs, we made some improvements.
How we ran a discovery for GOV.UK publishing permissions
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Hannah Jump, Senior Content Designer, Government Digital Service and Helen Wiles, Senior User Researcher, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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How we work, User insights, Vision and plans
We’re always looking to improve GOV.UK for users, including government publishers. Here is how we identified some of the next improvements to the publishing experience.
Improving how users search for local information on GOV.UK
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Jonathan Nichols, Lead Product Manager, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes, Working with us
We simplified our address finding system using the Ordnance Survey’s Places API. Here’s how we did it and the impact it’s had on GOV.UK and its users.
Incident report: Some GOV.UK URLs blocked by deceptive site warning
On September 30th certain users were being prevented from accessing files hosted on GOV.UK. Here is an explanation of what happened and how we resolved the issue.
Improving the design of subtopic pages
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Thomas Hind, Senior Product Manager, Navigation and Presentation, Posted on:
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Finding things, Product changes
We strive to make GOV.UK the most user friendly site possible. Here is how we improved subtopic pages to meet user needs better.
How GOV.UK is upgrading to Google Analytics 4
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Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK and Ian James, Lead frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Data, How we work, Product changes
Moving across to Google Analytics 4 is a major project. Here’s how we did it and what we’ll be doing to ensure minimal impact to the performance of GOV.UK.
Related content and links
The GOV.UK roadmap
Read the GOV.UK roadmap to find out what the GOV.UK team are working on. It shows what we’ve recently shipped, what we’re working on and what we’re looking into.
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