How we’re designing GOV.UK Chat
How we’re designing GOV.UK Chat
Learn more about our approach to designing GOV.UK’s experimental chatbot.
Managing links to local authority websites
We’ve been working to improve how GOV.UK users find services and content provided by local authorities and councils, or our ‘local links mission’ for short. I’m writing this post to explain a bit more about the mission. I also want …
What we’re working on: 22 July 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 8 July 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 …
Designing a content operating model for the next phase of GOV.UK
One of the objectives on our roadmap this year is to review the content operating model for GOV.UK. Work on this is now well underway, and we’re ready to share more detail on what, why and how. What we’re doing …
Changes to the style guide: no more eg, and ie, etc
We’ve found that several programs that read webpages for those with visual impairment read ‘eg’ incorrectly, so we’re updating the style guide. Most people who use these programs are used to their quirks, but it’s jarring to hear the wrong …
Weekend reading
While of course I would hope that you're not thinking about or doing work things over the weekend, here are a couple of posts from other GDS blogs that you might find interesting.
What we're working on: 8 July 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 27 June 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 …
Changes to Feedback Explorer (aka Feedex)
Feedex is a an application that collects user (public) feedback on GOV.UK services and pages. Feedex records comments that the user has left, and for service pages it also records a rating (1 to 5). Feedex is useful As the …
The content design meetup in Newcastle - a roundup
What happens when you get 40 content designers in a room? We tested this theory at the content design meetup in Newcastle on Tuesday 21 June and learned about accessibility, user research and forms.
Migration update: June 2016
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Product changes, Vision and plans
In April, I posted my last update on the programme of work to rebuild GOV.UK’s Publishing Platform. Here’s an update on what we’ve been doing since then. The Publishing Platform architecture Recently we’ve been focused on iterating the roadmap for …
What we're working on: 27 June 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 10 June 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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