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.
This post is a report about 2 recent incidents on the GOV.UK website. We’re still working through our incident process, but due to the scale of these issues, we felt it was important to publish our report as soon as …
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 28 October 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 …
Some of the content designers at GDS have recently worked on making GOV.UK mainstream pensions content clearer, reducing duplication and improving user journeys. This work’s been informed by research about retirement carried out by the GDS service team, plus research by …
...reality and it requires a cross-government effort. We need your help! For our improvements to navigation and orientation we’ve: worked with Department for Education and agencies to provide the information...
On 10 October, we had the first of our GOV.UK quarterly showcase events. This is a new regular event to keep the people who most need to know informed about our performance, progress and plans. The session included: introductions from …
The Finding Things team have completed their mission to rebuild and simplify GOV.UK’s tagging infrastructure!
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 14 October 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 …
One part of the Content Tools team mission is to help content designers within GDS be more effective at what they do. To make marginal gains in a variety of areas that collectively add up to a lot. The following …
This post is about our work on the Publishing Platform, what we’ve done so far, what we’re going to do, and how that will all help simplify our publishing applications’ code base as well as helping us focus on building …
We’re the international content discovery team, our 6-week mission, to boldly go where some people have gone before, finding international users’ needs. Camped out on the seventh floor at Aviation House, with vaguely international-themed bunting, we have spent the last …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.