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How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

Three information architects standing in front of a large screen displaying a presentation slide which reads: “World Information Architecture Day London 2025. 32 locations, 17 countries, 5 continents.”

How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.

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Guest post: Reducing guidance about school procurement

Posted by: alexknights, Posted on: 23 May 2016 - Categories: How we work

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 …

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Cache in the attic

Posted by: Keith Emmerson, Content Product Lead, Posted on: 18 May 2016 - Categories: Working with us

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.

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Making it easier to tag content

Posted by: Alex Torrance, Posted on: 16 May 2016 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes, User insights

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 …

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What we're working on: 13 May 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 13 May 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

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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Severity 1 incident: errors across publishing applications

Posted by: Stephanie Richardson-Dreyer, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Incident reports

This post is about a recent incident on the GOV.UK website. For more information on incidents on GOV.UK, you can check the status of the GOV.UK site or read more...

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Categorising incidents on GOV.UK

Posted by: Stephanie Richardson-Dreyer, Posted on: 11 May 2016 - Categories: How we work

...publish content. We take any problem on GOV.UK very seriously, and so we’ve made sure that we have a framework to refer to when we make decisions about how to...

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What we're working on: 29 April 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 29 April 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 15 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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Rebuilding GOV.UK’s publishing platform - an update

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 21 April 2016 - Categories: Product changes, Vision and plans

...to provide an update on our progress... To recap, the purpose of rebuilding the platform is to ensure that GOV.UK is scalable, secure and easy to work on. GOV.UK currently...

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Making content about debt better through collaboration

Posted by: Paula Stephenson and Tom Hughes, Posted on: 20 April 2016 - Categories: Content, How we work, Working with us

The Insolvency Service approached us last year with the idea of creating some content to help people in debt find out what options are available to them. We thought it would be useful too, and suggested we develop it together. …

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What we’re working on: 15 April 2016

Posted by: Hemita Bhatti, Posted on: 15 April 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 1 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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