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.
Getting titles wrong: what you can learn from our mistake
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.
A visit from the police
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 …
Content and publishing guidance: what changed during March 2016
...to 'unwithdraw' content after it's been withdrawn - this is a new feature for managing editors added guidance on attachment file names - this is to make sure that there's...
Some weekend reading from other GDS blogs
Here are a few blog posts from the rest of GDS that I've found interesting this week (and you might too).
Capturing comprehensive analytics across GOV.UK
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 …
How ‘cognitive walkthroughs’ can help with content design
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 …
When simple words aren't so simple
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 …
What we're working on: 1 April 2016
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 …
What we're working on: 23 March 2016
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, …
Improving the GOV.UK content team
The content team is dealing with more requests than ever before, and there wasn't a small amount to begin with. Liz Lutgendorff’s post from last December on the content team’s year in numbers gives you a sense of the amount …
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