Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide
Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide
We’ve improved how we work at GOV.UK by creating a new design resource for our teams. Here’s why and how we did it.
Incident report: intermittent access to all publishing applications
This post outlines a recent production issue on GOV.UK and how it was resolved. We’ve blogged in the past about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and also how we classify and prioritise incidents.
Our approach for the new taxonomy
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Vicky Buser and Graeme Claridge, Posted on:
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Content, Finding things, User insights
We launched the beta version of the new taxonomy earlier this year, which focuses on education content. In this post we’ll go into more detail about why this new taxonomy is required, and the choices we made while developing it.
Incident report: errors due to Publishing API availability
In February, GOV.UK had 2 consecutive days of errors affecting applications that utilise our publishing platform. This was a severity 2 incident.
Improvements to worldwide publishing
The look and feel of the worldwide pages on GOV.UK has changed. We’ve made these changes to make things better, both for users and for GOV.UK publishers.
Incident report: PDFs not available from Licensing application
This post is about a severity 2 incident affecting the GOV.UK website. We routinely publish incident reports because we believe we should be open about our mistakes and share our learning. We’ve posted before about what happens when things go …
2 week blitz - kickstarting the new roadmap
In early April we kickstarted our new 2017 to 2018 roadmap with a 2 week blitz period. As we formed new teams centralised around the roadmap missions, each team was given a single ‘must do’ task.
Quarterly update: wrapping up 2016 to 2017 and starting our new roadmap
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Vision and plans, What we're working on
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The pre-election period
In the coming weeks, you will notice that it’s much quieter than usual on this blog and all the other blogs run by GDS. It’s because between midnight on Friday, 21 April and the general election on 8 June is …
Incident roundup - part 2
We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August and October 2016. It follows on …
Incident roundup - part 1
We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. Every incident teaches us something new about our technology or the way we communicate with each other.
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
GOV.UK is moving to be multi-channel. Learn more about our priorities by reading our strategy for growth.
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