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...about using your own car for the test was www.gov.uk/practical-driving-test-for-cars/rules-for-cars-used-for-driving-tests. So we've made the URLs shorter and more memorable. The guide is now at www.gov.uk/driving-test, and the part about using...
DVLA’s contact centre is the largest single-site contact centre in government and it gets over 1 million calls each month. The volume has increased since the changes to important services such as vehicle tax, and scrapping the paper counterpart driving …
...feedback on the pages when they couldn’t find something a high number of on-page searches users moving back and forth between the 2 guides because they couldn't find what they...
At GOV.UK, one of our priorities until the end of March is rebuilding our publishing tools. This is so that it will be easier to improve them in the future, and make them reusable for third parties. As part of …
The GOV.UK content team is responsible for updating over 3,200 pieces of content (what we refer to as mainstream content). The content team is made up of about 25 content designers, supported by 2 delivery managers, 2 performance analysts, 3 …
...structured in our use of this data, so we've created a simple analytics report. It shows activity in the apps, focusing on how they are used by government publishers. This...
At the recent Content Conference we ran a session with editors in government to help them better understand how product decisions are made in GOV.UK. We received a lot of positive feedback from content designers saying that they found the insights …
...who are working on our Technical Support team for the week. They’re there specifically to provide support and to deal with problems on the site. When something has gone wrong,...
...And it makes you recognise your own assumptions as a content designer. At the GOV.UK content conference beta, I ran a session to tell the content community about some guerrilla...
In this guest post, Amanda McMahon of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) talks about working with subject matter experts (SMEs) to improve GOV.UK content and user engagement. Towards the end of last year, I started thinking about improving content …