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.
Content queries come in all shapes and sizes
In December last year I got a very exciting call. A month later I started as Government Digital Service’s (GDS) first junior content designer.
How we deal with product requests on GOV.UK
At GOV.UK we get an average of 120 product support requests a month from the public and organisations across government.
The Specialist Publisher rebuild: behind the scenes
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Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes, What we're working on
...are migrating it to use the new Publishing Platform, as its centralised data store. The Highway Code uses the 'manuals' format Our progress We’ve already deployed two Finders live in...
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
...for how GDS and departments can begin working towards it from the 2017 to 2018 financial year. We hope to be working with early adopter departments/agencies on developing a roadmap...
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)
...5. Or, in more technical terms, the main feedback table in support-api contains almost 17 million records. 16 million of these are simple 1 to 5 ratings for a GOV.UK...
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
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