Happy 3rd birthday, GOV.UK
GOV.UK will be 3 years old tomorrow. There’s lots to celebrate.
How we work
Getting the content design community together
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 …
8 days at the Treasury: writing GOV.UK content for the Summer Budget
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 …
User journey maps and funnels
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Keith Emmerson, Content Product Lead, Posted on:
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Best practice, How we work, User insights
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 …
GOV.UK high-level roadmap - Quarter 2, 2015
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.
Improving content for display on mobile
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 …
54 deployments in 1 day
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 …
The goals for GOV.UK in 2015 to 2016
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 …
Product team changes to support users better
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 …
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 …
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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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