Guest post from Dave Hallworth, Managing Editor at the Department for Education (DfE), and Jeni Pitkin, Digital Content Officer at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In January 2015 we went to the GDS Content Design Conference. This …
It was 35 degrees on the day I started at the Treasury. Greece was in crisis and the Chancellor’s Summer Budget was 7 days away. The atmosphere was intense. I went there to draft the Budget news story and to …
Over in content corner at GOV.UK, we’re spending 20% of our time improving content beyond our reactive ‘business as usual’ work. I've been looking at the Standard Visitor visa guide. My analyst colleague Chris Russell suggested modelling a user’s journey …
Following on from the recent trio of posts in which we talked about the operating context, team structure and goals for GOV.UK in 2015 to 2016, we’ve now completed the work to plan a high-level roadmap for 9 months ahead.
GOV.UK will be 3 years old this October. So we decided it was time for a group of content designers to take a more detailed look at how GOV.UK works on mobile devices. We knew GOV.UK was designed to be …
Last Wednesday, GOV.UK’s team of 22 developers upgraded and re-deployed a record 54 applications in just 6 hours. This was to deal with a potential security threat discovered in the software we use (Ruby on Rails and some dependent libraries). On …
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals. We’ve defined a new set of high-level goals to guide what the GOV.UK team does between now and April 2016. This post shares …
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals We’re restructuring the teams in our product group to reflect the new normal for GOV.UK. This post explains why we’re making changes, what …
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 …
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 …
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