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.
Showing the thing: a different approach to content for importers and exporters
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How we work, Product changes
The GDS content team are believers in iteration and continuous improvement. We spend a lot of time iterating: making improvements to GOV.UK's content based on user research and insight from analytics. But what do you do when you’ve got a …
What we’re working on: 10 March 2016
What we’ve been working on since the last update on 8 January, 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 GOV.UK running, and what we’re …
The vision for GOV.UK is to make government work for users
...government content and data in stable, machine-readable formats provide digital representations of real world things, backed by registers offer ways for government (and suppliers) to share our publishing service fully...
HTML pub crawl
Over on Basecamp, government publishers often ask us for examples of good HTML publications (HTML pubs) on GOV.UK. Here are some we’ve come across that make good use of the format. Over time, we plan to make the HTML pub …
Content crits: conquering through collaboration
As of 6 April 2016, every dog in the UK must be fitted with a microchip - all 8 million of them. Currently around 60% of them are sporting ‘chips. Not a bad start, but that’s still a significant number …
Working with service teams to improve user journeys
In the GOV.UK content team we spend 20% of our time on ‘improvement themes’ where we iterate content based on data and user feedback. We identify content that needs improving by working with performance analysts, user researchers and analysing feedback …
Interesting posts from other GDS blogs
In case you haven't seen them on the other GDS blogs, here are a couple of posts you might be interested in: benchmarking GOV.UK from the user research team writing for users with low literacy levels by Roz Strachan from the Digital Marketplace …
Finding things audit (2/2): how early years went
Education is the first theme of the GDS finding things project, and early years is the first content area. As we’ve now completed our audit of the early years content, and it went pretty smoothly, other departments have been asking …
Finding things audit (1/2): what, why, how
The finding things taxonomy work has completed the first content audit. This involved editors from different organisations reviewing all the content about early years education and childcare provision (eg childminding). Here's how we got on.
Email alerts for policies
...the Policies page. This incident report is specifically about email subscriptions created through the Policies page and does not affect the more commonly used Announcements and Publications pages, travel advice...
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