Improvements to worldwide publishing
The look and feel of the worldwide pages on GOV.UK has changed. We’ve made these changes to make things better, both for users and for GOV.UK publishers.
Content
Bigger and better: ConCon5, the 5th cross-government content conference
We held the fifth cross-government content conference - ConCon5 - in London on Wednesday 15 March. It was the biggest yet, with over 275 people attending on the day and...
Guest post: Transition is supporting transformation at Public Health England
...their International Discovery work. And last month, GDS ran 2 user needs workshop days with a number of our legacy site owners to demonstrate why we put users first and...
Presenting our new taxonomy beta!
It’s official: the new GOV.UK taxonomy is now in beta.
Guest post: Sharing some user-centred content principles
In the cross-government content community, we’ve been talking a lot about the crucial part content plays in coherent services. Helping colleagues from other disciplines understand the value of user-centred content is one of the goals of GOV.UK’s content operating model …
Tagging all the things together
The Finding Things team held a tagging day on 9 January 2017 to connect the education-related content to the draft new taxonomy. Publishers look at each of their pages and choose tags like "Early years funding" and "Phonics".
Discovery into consultations
One of the aims for the GOV.UK roadmap this year was to understand more about how digital tools could improve consultations. In Q3 of this year we hired The Democratic Society and Snook to carry out a 6 week discovery.
Making out-of-court options clearer for separating families
There are great teams building online services all over government - but the success of those services depends on how they work as part of users' whole experience. Things fall down if a government letter or helpline tells users something …
Fixing content with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
...FCO for a kickoff. We explained why the tool is so difficult to update from a technical perspective and our FCO colleagues told us about their own challenges. Usually we...
Improving our content about getting married abroad
The 'getting married abroad smart answer' helps British nationals find out if and how they can get married in another country.
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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.