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.
We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …
Getting the title of your content right is vital. When you get it right, users can find it and use it. When you get it wrong, it can really cause problems.
In December last year we were visited by members of the Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, the Surrey Police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner of Norfolk. Here’s what they said about their visit and how they’ve used …
...to 'unwithdraw' content after it's been withdrawn - this is a new feature for managing editors added guidance on attachment file names - this is to make sure that there's...
Here are a few blog posts from the rest of GDS that I've found interesting this week (and you might too).
To help us analyse and measure the performance of our content we use Google Analytics, which records the pages users visit. This year we’ve made improvements to GOV.UK that allows us to comprehensively record information about users’ interactions across the …
As a content designer, it’s often hard to know how to best use the insights from discovery research. It can feel like a big leap to take a research finding and translate it into words on a page. This is …
Good content is always easy to read and understand - but sometimes you need to get to know users better before you can choose the right words. We write for everyone in the UK on GOV.UK, so we’re always trying …
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 23 March, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to keep …
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 10 March, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into what we’ve been doing to keep GOV.UK running, …