GDS is launching an ‘Introduction to Content Design’ course on FutureLearn. Sign up now and read about one learner’s experience from the course pilot we ran last year.
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 73 watching the live stream.
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. …
On 10 October, we’re hosting a government event at Aviation House in London to showcase the work that GOV.UK has been doing in the last quarter, and to show what’s coming up.
What happens when you get 40 content designers in a room? We tested this theory at the content design meetup in Newcastle on Tuesday 21 June and learned about accessibility, user research and forms.
We’re re-running a couple of workshops from past content conferences, one practicing pair writing and one to help people submitting content change requests to GOV.UK content designers at GDS. Writing good content change requests We know a lot of people …
I know many of you are having trouble getting places on our training to write for and publish on GOV.UK. So I wanted to give you an update. We’ve been busy Since April we‘ve trained about 1,100 people in about …
Recently we’ve talked about the changes and improvements we’re planning to make to GOV.UK, like improving search and browse and making a more stable publishing platform. There’s another really important component, and that’s getting better at understanding the needs of …
John Ploughman is Content Design Manager at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), based in Nottingham. Back in February, I hosted the first GOV.UK local meetup for content designers in the Midlands to get together and share ideas, problems and solutions. …
At the most recent content clinic we tried out a new format - an ‘unconference’. Everyone suggested what they wanted to talk about and then we voted. The most popular topics were: how can reviewers see a preview of HTML …
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