User insights help us to understand how we can develop GOV.UK to ensure it continues to meet people’s needs and work well for everyone. Learn about some of 2025’s main findings across the GOV.UK website, app and social media channels.
...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...
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 …
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.
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 …
...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...
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.
...of features - and so that we are only maintaining it in one place. Progress on Whitehall migration So far we have migrated 8 Whitehall formats to use the Publishing...
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 …
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 …
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 app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.