Consolidating our content templates
Our team is here to simplify the GOV.UK frontend architecture and design, so that it’s simpler and faster for us to iterate, making way for exciting improvements in the future.
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GOV.UK’s content operating model: what’s next after discovery
I’m Trisha Doyle, the Head of Content Design for GDS, and I want to tell you about our work on GOV.UK’s content operating model, following on from Neil Williams’ blog post about it a few months ago.
Discovering international content
Where do you start when doing a discovery into so much content? We had 6 weeks to sensibly review and make recommendations about GOV.UK content for international users - not an easy task when GOV.UK has thousands of pages.
A new tool to help users check someone’s criminal record
Checking someone’s criminal record isn’t straightforward. In some cases, employers must check someone’s criminal record, but in others it’s a criminal offence to request a check.
Improving content about pensions
Some of the content designers at GDS have recently worked on making GOV.UK mainstream pensions content clearer, reducing duplication and improving user journeys. This work’s been informed by research about retirement carried out by the GDS service team, plus research by …
Simplified tagging infrastructure and tools - done.
The Finding Things team have completed their mission to rebuild and simplify GOV.UK’s tagging infrastructure!
Making it easier to understand smart answer logic
One part of the Content Tools team mission is to help content designers within GDS be more effective at what they do. To make marginal gains in a variety of areas that collectively add up to a lot. The following …
A broad look at international user needs
We’re the international content discovery team, our 6-week mission, to boldly go where some people have gone before, finding international users’ needs. Camped out on the seventh floor at Aviation House, with vaguely international-themed bunting, we have spent the last …
#ConCon4: The fourth cross-government content conference
We’re now on our fourth content conference, and we learn each time we run them. For the first time, we had more presenters from outside GDS than inside GDS. That’s important because the content community is far broader than GDS. …
The GOV.UK content team structure
It’s been a while since we last blogged about how the GOV.UK content team is structured. Our 2015 post about changes to the content design team explained we created 4 teams in order to develop knowledge in a subject areas and …
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