GOV.UK’s firebreak: why and how we spent a month working differently
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.
How we work
Time for a rebrand: Product analysts become Performance analysts
The Product analysts are changing their name to Performance analysts. Why? As well as ‘Product analyst’, we're called a number of other names, most of which don't really describe what we do. The Service Manual calls our role Performance analyst …
Testing scoped search on GOV.UK
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Ben Andrews and Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on:
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As we transition more organisations and their related content onto GOV.UK we increase the likelihood of returning lower quality results to our users. This blog post outlines one approach we are looking at called scoped search, or automatic filtering, to …
Bringing analytics to life using interactive data visualisation software
We’ve previously blogged about how we’ve been using Tableau to see how users look at departments and policy content on GOV.UK. We mentioned we wanted to make data more available to digital publishing teams, so we’re really excited to share …
Experiments in roadmapping at GOV.UK
This is just to draw your attention to a blog post I have published elsewhere, about our recent work to develop a comprehensive product roadmap for GOV.UK.
Publishing an updated GOV.UK proposition
This week we publish a consolidated proposition for GOV.UK in alpha form. We hope that this will help make it clearer which content and services are in scope for GOV.UK, and which are not. This post talks about how we …
How GOV.UK site search works
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Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on:
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How we work
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’re often asked, ‘how does search work?’ Site search is quite a big topic, but what people usually want to know …
What is 'mainstream' content?
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GOV.UK has different content areas that deal with different audiences and topics. One term we use a lot when talking about …
GOV.UK and the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug
On Monday 7th April, late night UK time, a serious bug was disclosed in the OpenSSL software that we (and a great many others) use to secure our websites. The bug was such that it was theoretically possible for third parties …
Mainstream workflow: from content request to live
A content designer looks at each content request coming in on a particular day (this happens on a rota system). For any specific content request they receive, they can: send it through to be scheduled for a detailed review and, …
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
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