Loads of changes to GOV.UK to tell you about this time - including a brand-new search.
Things we’ve done in the past couple of weeks: the top 10
- Released unified search onto the live site (goodbye search tabs!)
- Added workflow and audit trail to Corporate Information pages
- Ensured that you can associate detailed guides with Maslow needs
- Allowed publishers to edit the description text for archived documents
- Introduced ways to more accurately describe ‘closed’ organisations (blogpost to come)
- Deployed the new State Pension Calculator
- Updates to lots of smart answers
- Research into ‘start’ pages and iterated on the design for the SORN start page
- Added bank holidays for 2016
- Investigated some problems with search results and logging in
Our plans for the next couple of weeks: top 10
- Improve the ‘featuring’ interface for organisations, topics, topical events and worldwide organisations - and add the ability to link to external sites
- Caveat GOV.UK’s list of ministers whenever there are changes in responsibility
- Improve the presentation of government roles which are no longer current
- Make GOV.UK blogs more mobile-friendly, and have a better blog index page
- Work out how we can help visitors to GOV.UK better orientate themselves on the site
- Launch A/B testing functionality for DVSA
- Update the home page
- Do user research on a smart answer prototype
- Add more Google Analytics tagging to all our publishing apps, to help assess user needs
- Look at how to give a visual distinction between Preview and Production
Finally, some of us took part in a restrained, dignified celebration of GDS winning the ‘Team of the Year’ net award.
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