What we're working on: 16 September 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 02 September 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
A new content operating model for GOV.UK - a bit of discovery
Hello - I’m Natalie Baron, and in February this year I joined GDS as a user researcher. I was asked to look at what it’s like for people in departments and agencies to publish on GOV.UK.
You've got mail
Over 500,000 people subscribe to email notifications for GOV.UK. This amounts to a staggering 1.5 million emails sent per day based on users’ preferences for notifications, triggered by content being updated on the site.
Seaham, hear ‘em, thank ‘em: learning from business helpline advisers
A team of GOV.UK content designers, a delivery manager and user researcher have been working to improve the GOV.UK content about how to set up a business.
Splitting and renaming Specialist Publisher
Last month we wrote about our work to rebuild Specialist Publisher, the app used for creating manuals and finders on GOV.UK. This post provides an update on progress, and tells you about some changes we're making to split it into …
What we're working on: 2 September 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 19 August 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
A/Bsolutely fabulous testing
Here’s an example of how a multi-disciplinary team of user researchers, performance analysts, content designers and developers work together to improve the user experience on GOV.UK.
Roadmap update! Quarter 1 roundup and what we're doing in quarter 2
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Vision and plans, What we're working on
...content operating model mission As we’re learning, we’re updating the goals in our roadmap. This work is laying the foundations for what we plan to focus on in the 2017...
What we’re working on: 19 August 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 5 August 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to keep …
What we're working on: 5 August 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 22 July 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
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Read about the GOV.UK app
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.