...of visits interacting with the new menu bar was 58% higher the overall clickthrough rate from the new menu bar was 36% higher These A/B test metrics, combined with our...
Today we’ve released an update to the GOV.UK homepage. This is the first change to this page for a while, so we wanted to share the thinking behind it. Why...
...who were trying to find their way to sections now exposed by the new nav. Because the new nav bar also meant a change in the position of the search...
...changed We wanted to create something that was faithful to both the official heraldry and the visual identity of GOV.UK. We redrew a simplified version of the crown, making sure...
...quicker. We've also redesigned it so that you can select multiple filters at a time without having to wait for the first one to load, as you did before. Find...
GOV.UK site search is one of the main ways people find information on GOV.UK. It’s used more than 4 million times a month. In our strategy for growth, we said...
Yesterday was the start of a new sprint. (We plan our work in weekly sprints, which run from Wednesday to Tuesday). The theme of this week’s sprint is transition prep....
One of the main ways people navigate around GOV.UK is by topic-based browsing. Topics are a set of pages covering a wide range of services and guidance, which users can...
...design Our previous design, introduced in 2014, was based on 3 columns as shown in the screenshot below. However, there were a few problems with this design that we wanted...
...moved off the roadmap as it’s been delivered, or moved into the recently shipped column. This includes: rolling out a new navigation bar across GOV.UK following a successful A/B test...
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.