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.
Responding to the changing user needs of the COVID-19 landing page
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Nathalie Carter, Content Designer, GOV.UK and Lina Nilsson, Senior Service Designer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Content, Finding things, User insights
As the subject of over 100,000 Google searches a month, we know people are still looking to GOV.UK for information on coronavirus. So when we discovered the page was not meeting changing user needs, we made some improvements.
How we ran a discovery for GOV.UK publishing permissions
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Hannah Jump, Senior Content Designer, Government Digital Service and Helen Wiles, Senior User Researcher, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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How we work, User insights, Vision and plans
We’re always looking to improve GOV.UK for users, including government publishers. Here is how we identified some of the next improvements to the publishing experience.
Improving how users search for local information on GOV.UK
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Jonathan Nichols, Lead Product Manager, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes, Working with us
We simplified our address finding system using the Ordnance Survey’s Places API. Here’s how we did it and the impact it’s had on GOV.UK and its users.
Incident report: Some GOV.UK URLs blocked by deceptive site warning
On September 30th certain users were being prevented from accessing files hosted on GOV.UK. Here is an explanation of what happened and how we resolved the issue.
Improving the design of subtopic pages
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Thomas Hind, Senior Product Manager, Navigation and Presentation, Posted on:
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Finding things, Product changes
We strive to make GOV.UK the most user friendly site possible. Here is how we improved subtopic pages to meet user needs better.
How GOV.UK is upgrading to Google Analytics 4
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Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK and Ian James, Lead frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Data, How we work, Product changes
Moving across to Google Analytics 4 is a major project. Here’s how we did it and what we’ll be doing to ensure minimal impact to the performance of GOV.UK.
Helping people understand cladding and building safety costs
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Polly Green - Senior Content Designer, GOV.UK, Claire Ryan-East, Content Designer, GOV.UK and Sehrish Afzal, Senior Policy Advisor, DLUHC, Posted on:
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Content, What we're working on, Working with us
GDS and DLUHC worked together to develop a smart answer to help users find out how much they might have to pay to remove cladding, or make their building safe.
Why and how we updated the GOV.UK campaign templates
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Inderjeet Singh, Senior Product Manager at GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Eela Muhaimin, Policy Advisor, Priority Projects Unit, Cabinet Office, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes
There’s a new and improved campaign template for communicators across government to use on GOV.UK. Read what’s changed and how we’ve tested it.
How we’re preparing for the migration to Google Analytics 4
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Daisy Wain, Lead Performance Analyst, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, Product changes, Working with us
Moving across to Google Analytics 4 is a major project. Here’s how we’re preparing for the move.
The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
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Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development at the Government Digital Service (GDS) and Andy Sellick, Senior frontend developer, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Product changes
In this blog post, we explain the technical details of removing the jQuery library from GOV.UK’s public facing applications and the performance impact it had for our users.
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