New normal, new teams, new goals
It’s been a while since we’ve shared a roadmap for GOV.UK. Our previous plans took us up to the end of the election and the start of the new financial year, but we couldn’t plan much beyond that until the …
How we work
GOV.UK Performance Analytics community
Why we need a community There are more than 350 analytics users across government departments, agencies and arm’s length bodies (A/ALBs). They want information on analytics techniques and best practice; we at GDS want to learn what different types of …
Content clinic 19 May: what we talked about
On 19 May 2015, we held a content clinic at the Department for Education, with 15 editors from 8 organisations. Quantitative content analysis To start, Jonathan Richardson spoke about Defra’s smarter guidance programme, and how he’s built a tool to …
How GOV.UK is handling the election
We're entering the pre-election period now, so this blog is going quiet until after the election. But we'll leave you with a look at the ways in which GOV.UK will help you see what's going on as the election approaches.
Improving Self Assessment on GOV.UK
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Andy Harsant, Jane Eastwood and Spencer Ball - Content Designer, Race Disparity Unit, Posted on:
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How we work, User insights
GOV.UK is the new home of HMRC information since we completed transition of all government agencies and arms-length bodies in December 2014. This means that millions of users now come to GOV.UK for information about Self Assessment tax returns. This …
Taking stock of GOV.UK’s information architecture
As information architects at GOV.UK it’s our job to organise, label and group content to help people find what they’re looking for. This blog post describes the work we did last year, the problems we identified during a thorough review …
Changes to the GOV.UK content design team
Starting 16 March, we’re changing how the content design team in GOV.UK is organised so we can develop closer working relationships across government and prioritise our work more efficiently. We’re also making it easier for GDS content designers to learn …
Introducing improvement plans
Update: 19 June 2015 We have now restructured our product teams and set out our goals until April 2016. We are prioritising running the live site, supporting users and - with the capacity that remains - raising the quality of …
Making it easier to find things on GOV.UK
Late last year, we finished transitioning the websites of more than 300 government organisations onto GOV.UK. Since then we’ve formed a new team to focus on improving navigation to make it easier for GOV.UK users to find what they need, …
Rethinking the GOV.UK policy format: what our users told us
We're changing the policy format to better meet users' needs and get people to what they need faster.
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
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