In user research we’ve seen that users are finding it hard to scan long A to Z lists of content titles on specialist sub-topic pages. This blog post describes some improvements to specialist browse pages we're making to address this …
Peter Jordan blogged recently about the new content dashboards. This week John Joseph from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), writes about how he used Google Analytics and a little help from GDS to create dashboards to track and …
The renew a tax disc service is one of the most popular services on GOV.UK. We recently redesigned the start page for this transaction to make it easier for visitors to access the new version of this service, whilst keeping the existing service …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We recently blogged about the alternative organisation page which displays a list of up to 10 curated top tasks in the …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. To everything, there is a season. Including, it would seem, Official Documents. So here’s all you need to know about publishing …
We're using a new data visualisation tool called Tableau to reveal new information on how 'departments and policy' content is being viewed on GOV.UK. The GDS departments and policy content team currently uses Google Analytics to track how content is viewed and the effects of …
This week we publish a consolidated proposition for GOV.UK in alpha form. We hope that this will help make it clearer which content and services are in scope for GOV.UK, and which are not. This post talks about how we …
The next content clinic will be on Thursday 26 June, from 3pm to 4:30pm, at the Department for Transport. We'll then proceed to the pub, where we can answer any questions we don't get time for in the clinic. To …
It’s been a few weeks since we collected together some of the best blog posts from across GDS. Looking back over nearly 3 months of updates, it’s clear to see what we’ve been delivering a lot. So here’s the latest …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’re often asked, ‘how does search work?’ Site search is quite a big topic, but what people usually want to know …
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