The Government Digital Service (GDS) Transition team has been an industrious bunch since we formed in September 2016. For a team of just 4 people (2 content designers, a content lead and a policy and engagement manager), we’ve achieved a …
...their International Discovery work. And last month, GDS ran 2 user needs workshop days with a number of our legacy site owners to demonstrate why we put users first and...
...for a while and are out of date. All departments provide quarterly updates on the number of open websites. At the last count there were 269 government websites. But I...
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 hard to believe that a little over 15 months ago each of the government’s 300+ agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs) had their own website.
The Transition Tool will be offline for a few hours on Tuesday 28 October 2014. What you need to know Because the transition tool will be offline: there will be no transitions on 27, 28 or 29 October users will …
A few weeks ago, Monitor went live on GOV.UK. Here Rachel Purkett and Tom Charteris outline what worked for them and suggest a few things they could have done differently. 1. Talking to real users and acting on what they told us …
Here’s a round-up of recent blog posts that are relevant if you’re working on transitioning content to GOV.UK. Make films Curious about how we make films like this one? Or think a film might be the best way to show …
Transition shouldn't be jarring for users. A successful transition means users can still find what they're looking for, wherever it's hosted. Mappings maintain continuity for users when your website transitions to GOV.UK. A mapping is either: a redirect to GOV.UK content, if the …
It’s been a few weeks since we collected together some of the best blog posts from across GDS. Looking back over nearly 3 months of updates, it’s clear to see what we’ve been delivering a lot. So here’s the latest …
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