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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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Formats and templates - what’s the difference?

Posted by: huminmiah and Shilpa Acharya, Posted on: 9 January 2017 - Categories: Content, Product changes

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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Guest post: What a difference 2 weeks can make…

Posted by: Ronni Taylor and Phil Hogg, Posted on: 19 December 2016 - Categories: Content, How we work

We’re Ronni Taylor and Phil Hogg and we’re both HMRC content designers. We usually work in HMRC’s Manchester Digital Design Centre but for 2 weeks in August we moved down south to work alongside our GDS colleagues in London. It’s …

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Cross-posting time

Posted by: Keith Emmerson, Content Product Lead, Posted on: 15 December 2016 - Categories: How we work

It's been a while since I've done one of these posts about other posts. So as it's Christmas, here's a list of things written by other people. They are interesting, I promise.

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Is GOV.UK getting easier to use?

Posted by: David McCrae, Posted on: 12 December 2016 - Categories: Content, User insights
GOV.UK on a laptop

Twice a year the user research team runs a benchmarking exercise so we can see how GOV.UK performs. It’s really important to constantly monitor how we’re doing to identify changes in trends that we should be focussing efforts on. 

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What we're working on: 09 December 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 9 December 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 28 November 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 …

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Consolidating our content templates

Posted by: huminmiah, Posted on: 7 December 2016 - Categories: Content, Product changes

Our team is here to simplify the GOV.UK frontend architecture and design, so that it’s simpler and faster for us to iterate, making way for exciting improvements in the future.

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5 reflections from 5 GOV.UK people on the occasion of GDS's 5th birthday

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 6 December 2016 - Categories: How we work

...app I've been involved in building from the ground up, so it was a proud moment to see it come to fruition. I'm looking forward to delivering further iterations and...

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GOV.UK’s content operating model: what’s next after discovery

Posted by: Trisha Doyle, Posted on: 5 December 2016 - Categories: Content, Vision and plans

...difficulty finding the things they need on the site. We’ve got a team - aptly named ‘Finding Things’ - which has been working on how to address this problem. Part...

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Discovering international content

Posted by: Lucy Hartley, Posted on: 2 December 2016 - Categories: Content

Where do you start when doing a discovery into so much content? We had 6 weeks to sensibly review and make recommendations about GOV.UK content for international users - not an easy task when GOV.UK has thousands of pages.

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A new tool to help users check someone’s criminal record

Posted by: Jane Eastwood, Posted on: 30 November 2016 - Categories: Content

Checking someone’s criminal record isn’t straightforward. In some cases, employers must check someone’s criminal record, but in others it’s a criminal offence to request a check.

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