Firebreaks on GOV.UK are similar to Google’s 20% time or Spotify’s hack week. For 1 week every 3 months, teams disband and everyone is given a chance to have some self-directed time to improve GOV.UK. We’ve had 3 firebreaks now: …
This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August 2017 and February 2018.
One of the objectives of our Q2 mission was to create documentation for the GOV.UK content application programming interface (API). This is a public API that allows machines to access and republish GOV.UK content. Before we started the project The …
Over three quarters of a million people use GOV.UK emails to find out when content is published or updated on the site. We used to use an external service to send these. We've built a system using GOV.UK Notify, a …
This post explores how we plan who works on which team on GOV.UK, and how that process has evolved throughout 2017-2018.
We’ve been working closely with the Department for Transport (DfT) and its agencies to support them to improve their content and make it easier to find on GOV.UK. Here's what we’ve learned from doing an audit of 7,396 content items, …
Last quarter, a multidisciplinary team explored how we can improve the transaction (or ‘start page’) content format. A start page marks the point in the user’s journey where they move from finding out information on GOV.UK to completing a transaction …
GOV.UK was built rapidly to meet a tight deadline. The push to get GOV.UK out of beta into live, transitioning 326 government websites onto the single domain, and closing down Directgov and BusinessLink resulted in a significant amount of technical …
The GOV.UK Publishing Frontend team has created tools to help developers and designers ensure a consistent user interface across the site. We’ve already reduced the number of templates and design patterns used on GOV.UK. Now we’ve created a style guide …
The Modelling Services team recently blogged about the launch of step by step navigation. This is a new navigation pattern that shows users all the content and transactions they need to complete a service, on GOV.UK and beyond.
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.