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.
Tagging all the things together
The Finding Things team held a tagging day on 9 January 2017 to connect the education-related content to the draft new taxonomy. Publishers look at each of their pages and choose tags like "Early years funding" and "Phonics".
Quarterly update: what we've done since October, and what we'll do by April
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Vision and plans, What we're working on
...content operating model Hopefully, you’ll have read blog posts from Trisha Doyle about the work we’ve been doing on the content operating model (if you haven’t, go and read them)....
What we're working on: 30 January 2017
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 13 January 2017, and what we plan to do next. As usual, we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Discovery into consultations
One of the aims for the GOV.UK roadmap this year was to understand more about how digital tools could improve consultations. In Q3 of this year we hired The Democratic Society and Snook to carry out a 6 week discovery.
Making out-of-court options clearer for separating families
There are great teams building online services all over government - but the success of those services depends on how they work as part of users' whole experience. Things fall down if a government letter or helpline tells users something …
Transition - it's back!
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Robert Rockstroh, GOV.UK Policy & Strategy Manager, Government Digital Service (GDS), Posted on:
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Transition
...for a while and are out of date.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...
Fixing content with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
...FCO for a kickoff. We explained why the tool is so difficult to update from a technical perspective and our FCO colleagues told us about their own challenges. Usually we...
Improving our content about getting married abroad
The 'getting married abroad smart answer' helps British nationals find out if and how they can get married in another country.
What we're working on: 13 January 2017
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 9 December 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Formats and templates - what’s the difference?
The migration team is migrating GOV.UK’s formats to the new publishing platform. This will mean that the template consolidation team can reduce the number of templates used on GOV.UK making it easier to manage. What are formats? Formats are basically …
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
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