We’ve overhauled the GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Find out what’s changed, why this is a major improvement for government publishers, and what we learned from testing.
For the past few weeks, we've been working on making improvements to the GOV.UK publishing pipeline. Here's what we've done so far and what's coming next.
Over the coming months, we are working to improve sections of GOV.UK that relate to government departments and agencies (what we define as ‘organisations’).
In the first 2 quarters of 2017 to 2018, some of GOV.UK’s content designers led improvement projects with government departments on specific content areas. The goal was to improve our understanding of user needs and iterate content to meet those …
Firebreaks on GOV.UK are similar to Google’s 20% time or Spotify’s hack week. For 1 week every 3 months, teams disband and everyone is given a chance to have some self-directed time to improve GOV.UK. We’ve had 3 firebreaks now: …
This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August 2017 and February 2018.
One of the objectives of our Q2 mission was to create documentation for the GOV.UK content application programming interface (API). This is a public API that allows machines to access and republish GOV.UK content. Before we started the project The …
Over three quarters of a million people use GOV.UK emails to find out when content is published or updated on the site. We used to use an external service to send these. We've built a system using GOV.UK Notify, a …
This post explores how we plan who works on which team on GOV.UK, and how that process has evolved throughout 2017-2018.
We’ve been working closely with the Department for Transport (DfT) and its agencies to support them to improve their content and make it easier to find on GOV.UK. Here's what we’ve learned from doing an audit of 7,396 content items, …
Last quarter, a multidisciplinary team explored how we can improve the transaction (or ‘start page’) content format. A start page marks the point in the user’s journey where they move from finding out information on GOV.UK to completing a transaction …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.