GOV.UK
The 2017 to 2018 GOV.UK roadmap
The 2017 to 2018 GOV.UK roadmap
The goal for GOV.UK in the next financial year is: “make the single domain work harder for users”.
The pre-election period
In the coming weeks, you will notice that it’s much quieter than usual on this blog and all the other blogs run by GDS. It’s because between midnight on Friday, 21 April and the general election on 8 June is …
Incident roundup - part 2
We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August and October 2016. It follows on …
Incident roundup - part 1
We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. Every incident teaches us something new about our technology or the way we communicate with each other.
Making tagging part of publishing
We’re working to make tagging content to the new taxonomy a simple, routine step in the GOV.UK publishing process. The Finding Things team have been creating the first complete taxonomy for GOV.UK, starting with Education. This taxonomy powers a new …
Questions to help you define your mission - a thing for product managers
GOV.UK is a busy programme. Every fortnight, we in the programme team check in with our teams to find out what they’ve been up to, what their blockers are, and what they need from us.
Bigger and better: ConCon5, the 5th cross-government content conference
We held the fifth cross-government content conference - ConCon5 - in London on Wednesday 15 March. It was the biggest yet, with over 275 people attending on the day and 73 watching the live stream.
Guest post: Transition is supporting transformation at Public Health England
Public Health England (PHE) is well underway in transitioning it’s numerous legacy websites. With support from GDS we're transforming our content to meet our users’ needs.
New navigation for education content on GOV.UK
The Finding Things team have been working with the Department for Education and agencies to make it easier for people to find what they need on GOV.UK.
What we’ve been working on: designing GOV.UK
You might have noticed that the design of GOV.UK hasn't changed much for a while. Or at least, not visibly.
What we're working on: 27 March 2017
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 10 March 2017, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …