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.
Improving the postcode matching on GOV.UK
We’ve just finished improving the application we use on GOV.UK for postcode matching. It’s used to give a result for ‘local transactions’ and ‘find my nearest’ formats. Local transactions help users find services and content that are provided by their …
What we're working on: 10 June 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 26 May 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 …
The GOV.UK roadmap - 2016 to 2017
In March we shared the vision for where GOV.UK is going. Since then we’ve been finessing plans for how we'll move towards that vision while continuing to run a reliable service in the 2016 to 17 financial year.
And in other GDS blogs...
Here are a couple of blog posts from the other GDS teams that caught my eye.
What we're working on: 26 May 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 13 May 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 …
Workshops on pair writing and writing good content change requests
We’re re-running a couple of workshops from past content conferences, one practicing pair writing and one to help people submitting content change requests to GOV.UK content designers at GDS. Writing good content change requests We know a lot of people …
Guest post: Reducing guidance about school procurement
At the beginning of the year we asked the content design community if they had any examples of best practice that they could share, to help other teams see how they might also make improvements to their content. This post …
Cache in the attic
When we change content on GOV.UK we tell our government colleagues that, “It should be live in about 20 to 30 minutes.” Here’s why.
Making it easier to tag content
The 3 existing ways of tagging things mainstream browse categories, policy areas, topics and subtopics means that tagging is complex and publishers aren’t clear what effect tagging has and where the document will appear. We want to separate the process …
What we're working on: 13 May 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 29 April 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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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
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