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How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

Three information architects standing in front of a large screen displaying a presentation slide which reads: “World Information Architecture Day London 2025. 32 locations, 17 countries, 5 continents.”

How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.

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Incident roundup - June to July 2018

Posted by: GOV.UK support team, Posted on: 12 March 2019 - Categories: Incident reports
GOV.UK Incident Report

We're committed to blogging about every severity 1 or severity 2 incident on GOV.UK. Here's a roundup of 4 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between June and July 2018.

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Tackling design debt on GOV.UK

Posted by: Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, Posted on: 7 March 2019 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes
A group of GOV.UK designs and design elements

GOV.UK is a large and complex website that uses a range of different layouts and design elements. We've been improving the site's user experience by tackling design debt and building a universal navigation system.

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Data incident roundup - February 2018

Posted by: GOV.UK support team, Posted on: 22 February 2019 - Categories: Incident reports
GOV.UK Incident Report

We encountered 2 incidents affecting our analytics data in February 2018. This post shows how we responded to them.

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An update on the GOV.UK taxonomy

Posted by: Si Stephens-Manassiev, Posted on: 12 February 2019 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

We’ve made huge strides over the past year towards our vision of a single sitewide taxonomy that powers front end navigation. Find out what we've done and what's next.

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Experimenting with a new way of moving between content types

Posted by: Alan Maddrell and Ganesh Senthi, Senior Product Manager, GOV.UK Data Labs, Posted on: 18 December 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Screenshot of 'Services' and 'Guidance and regulation' supergroups

Users sometimes want to switch between different types of content on GOV.UK. We've been experimenting with a new way of doing this.

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Making sure users can see updates by optimising caching

Posted by: Thomas Leese and Elliot Crosby-McCullough, Posted on: 28 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
Members of the Platform Health team

We've been working on improving publishing times for GOV.UK content. One of the ways we've been doing this is by optimising caching.

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Making content supergroups more super

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 21 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Product changes
A screenshot of a supergroup example on the 'Education, training and skills' topic page

'Supergroups' help users find relevant content on GOV.UK by grouping document types together. Here's what we've been doing to improve them.

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How tagging has changed for publishers

Posted by: Si Stephens-Manassiev, Posted on: 14 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A section of the GOV.UK taxonomy tree showing 3 themes at level 1: 'International'. 'Health and social care' and 'Regional and local government'

We've been working on creating a single sitewide taxonomy for GOV.UK. Find out how what this means for people across government who publish content to GOV.UK.

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Incident roundup - March to May 2018

Posted by: GOV.UK support team, Posted on: 2 November 2018 - Categories: Incident reports
GOV.UK Incident Report

We're committed to blogging about every severity 1 or severity 2 incident on GOV.UK. Here's a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between March and May 2018.

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Using topic pages to organise content on GOV.UK

Posted by: Mia Allers, Senior Graphic Designer at GDS, Posted on: 1 November 2018 - Categories: Content, Finding things, Product changes
A screen shot of the 'Education, training and skills' topic page

Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.

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