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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
We're changing the policy format to better meet users' needs and get people to what they need faster.
Throughout January 2015, we gave people in our product and infrastructure teams the freedom to work on anything they liked so long as it was good for GOV.UK.