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User insights

What happened when we changed the Inside Government nav

Ashraf Chohan, 23 May 2013 - User insights

On 9th April we made major changes to the Inside Government navigation bar by 1) exposing the sections rather than nesting them and 2) moving the search query field to the left. This was in response to user testing that …

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