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5 things we learned testing GOV.UK Chat: an AI assistant for government

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5 things we learned testing GOV.UK Chat: an AI assistant for government

Learn about the key findings from our pilots of GOV.UK Chat, and how we’ve evaluated its performance ahead of the next phase.

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How to lose contact information and alienate people

Posted by: Jon Sanger, Posted on: 4 February 2016 - Categories: Best practice, How we work, User insights

DVLA’s contact centre is the largest single-site contact centre in government and it gets over 1 million calls each month. The volume has increased since the changes to important services such as vehicle tax, and scrapping the paper counterpart driving …

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Designing better content for lorry and bus drivers

Posted by: Jane Eastwood, Posted on: 2 February 2016 - Categories: How we work
Lorry driving test

...feedback on the pages when they couldn’t find something a high number of on-page searches users moving back and forth between the 2 guides because they couldn't find what they...

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How spike week helped us see the wood for the trees

Posted by: David Singleton and Tatiana Soukiassian, Posted on: 28 January 2016 - Categories: How we work, Product changes

At GOV.UK, one of our priorities until the end of March is rebuilding our publishing tools. This is so that it will be easier to improve them in the future, and make them reusable for third parties. As part of …

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Incident report: 504 Gateway timeouts in publishing applications

Posted by: Aaron Keogh, Posted on: 28 January 2016 - Categories: Incident reports

This post is about a recent incident relating to 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 about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK. …

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Publishing 'official documents' the right way

Posted by: Graeme Paterson, Posted on: 19 January 2016 - Categories: Best practice

If you’ve published your organisation’s annual report and accounts, a response to a select committee report or a major policy document to GOV.UK, then you may have published an ‘official document’ without knowing it. You may have seen some blog …

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What we’re working on: 8 January 2016

Posted by: Jack Church, Posted on: 11 January 2016 - Categories: What we're working on

...Agency (DVSA). We're looking at how we can reduce the number of people who go to their car or motorcycle practical test ill-prepared because they don't know what they need...

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Site search improvements: quick wins

Posted by: Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on: 30 December 2015 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

We’ve made quite a few improvements and fixes to the GOV.UK search engine this year, even though our main focus has been on improving navigation and how content is organised.

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What we’re working on:  11 December 2015

Posted by: Jack Church, Posted on: 18 December 2015 - Categories: What we're working on

...iforms to help users update their details online worked on user journeys to HMRC's personal tax account Improving GOV.UK Things we’ve done to improve GOV.UK in relation to the missions...

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A year in the life of the GOV.UK content team

Posted by: Liz Lutgendorff, Posted on: 10 December 2015 - Categories: How we work

The GOV.UK content team is responsible for updating over 3,200 pieces of content (what we refer to as mainstream content). The content team is made up of about 25 content designers, supported by 2 delivery managers, 2 performance analysts, 3 …

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Using analytics within product teams at GOV.UK

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 9 December 2015 - Categories: How we work, Product changes, User insights

...structured in our use of this data, so we've created a simple analytics report. It shows activity in the apps, focusing on how they are used by government publishers. This...

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