We’ve set up a trending searches dashboard to show search terms that people are looking for more than usual in GOV.UK site search. This can help you to spot emerging or rising user needs and react quickly to make sure …
This is the first election for which the UK has a single government domain. Here's how we're making it clear what was published under previous governments.
During the recent GOV.UK firebreak, we made some improvements to info pages. These are the ‘shadow’ pages that exist for almost every page on GOV.UK. They show user needs for that page and metrics about how well the page meets …
We’ve had some requests from departments to look into improving publication pages. We’ve looked at the data to better understand how publication pages are being used and made changes to the design. We will be rolling these out on GOV.UK …
As we mentioned in our roadmap update on 21st November, we’ve started a project to restructure and improve the Whitehall publisher. These improvements will pave the way for future development of publishing on GOV.UK. This blog post explains a bit …
We know through user research that people with specialist user needs want to see everything about their specialisms. They want to know when content has changed and quickly understand what has changed. So we’ve made a couple of improvements to …
Content designers across government asked for a way to download lists of documents from Whitehall to help them audit their content on GOV.UK. Some departments needed to tidy up content that was migrated during transition, and others need to look …
We’ve recently simplified the way we link to local services like Report a litter problem, Find out your rubbish collection day and many more. Our colleagues in DCLG got in touch to let us know that when users follow links …
When we moved our content and publishing guidance into one place, we said we’d let you know every couple of sprints what we’ve done and what we’ll do next. So here’s our latest update. What we did We added: new …
We’re improving smart answers, both how they’re presented and how they work under the covers. Smart answers are one of the formats we use on GOV.UK to make it easy (or at least, easier) for users to find out what …
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