The new normal for GOV.UK
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals. Since the beta release of GOV.UK in January 2012, the GOV.UK team has been hard at work building, scaling up and iterating the …
How we work
New normal, new teams, new goals
...meantime: we’ve continued to maintain the site and make valuable improvements as usual, prioritising the most urgent and important things sprint by sprint). Image by Dean Hochman. Neil Williams is...
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
...help you see what's going on as the election approaches. Register to vote People can register to vote at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote up until 20 April. We'll continue to promote this on...
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, …
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
GOV.UK is moving to be multi-channel. Learn more about our priorities by reading our strategy for growth.
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