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Making it easier for users to sign in to services

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Making it easier for users to sign in to services

Last quarter, a multidisciplinary team explored how we can improve the transaction (or ‘start page’) content format. A start page marks the point in the user’s journey where they move from finding out information on GOV.UK to completing a transaction …

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Benchmarking and performance measurement of content transformation

Posted by: Katie Taylor, Posted on: 22 September 2017 - Categories: How we work, User insights
the content transformation team stand up meeting

We’re embarking on a huge programme of work to design a single taxonomy and transform our operating model and the content that is published on GOV.UK. The aim of this work is to make it easier for people to find …

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Experimenting with containerised infrastructure for GOV.UK

Posted by: Paul Heron, Posted on: 15 September 2017 - Categories: Product changes
Shipping containers

The GOV.UK Infrastructure team maintain and improve the systems that create GOV.UK. This includes the GOV.UK website as well as the tools used by publishers and developers. Earlier this year we ran a discovery and alpha into hosting and deploying …

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Making it easier to find help and services abroad

Posted by: Lucy Hartley, Gabrielle Acosta and joeharrison, Posted on: 13 September 2017 - Categories: Content, Product changes, User insights
The Worldwide team at work

When we first created GOV.UK we did it based on the assumption that users shouldn’t need to know who provides a service to be able to use it. Users just want to complete a task - they shouldn’t have to …

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A public API for GOV.UK content: inviting expressions of interest

Posted by: Ben Hazell, Posted on: 11 September 2017 - Categories: Content, Vision and plans, Working with us
API for Content team

We’re working to design, document, and prepare to support a public API for GOV.UK content. We are inviting expressions of interest from those who want to publish GOV.UK content elsewhere, or use GOV.UK content to build things, so that we …

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The nuts and bolts of a transition project

Posted by: Amanda Diamond, Posted on: 8 September 2017 - Categories: Content, How we work, Transition
Sellafield workshop

The Government Digital Service (GDS) Transition team has been an industrious bunch since we formed in September 2016. For a team of just 4 people (2 content designers, a content lead and a policy and engagement manager), we’ve achieved a …

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Making better decisions with data

Posted by: ivanfranco, Posted on: 6 September 2017 - Categories: Best practice, How we work, User insights
Ivan working with a content designer

As a performance analyst on GOV.UK, my job is to assess how well the site is performing, and track the effects of changes we put in place. Sometimes people think this mostly involves monitoring trends. That's important, but the interesting …

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What we learned from the 5th round of GOV.UK benchmarking

Posted by: Giulia Bazoli and David McCrae, Posted on: 5 September 2017 - Categories: Content, User insights

In December 2016 we wrote about our fifth round of benchmarking on GOV.UK. Since the blog post we’ve been analysing and sharing our results across GDS. Although we learned a lot about the specific tasks, we also found out more …

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​7 hours with the content team: a visit from Dublin

Posted by: Brian Malone, Posted on: 21 August 2017 - Categories: Content, How we work
GOV.UK team members

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is the Irish equivalent of the NHS – its purpose is to build a high quality health service for the people of Ireland. Our core values are care, compassion, trust and learning.

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Merging our short text templates

Posted by: huminmiah, Posted on: 16 August 2017 - Categories: Product changes
The template consolidation team at work

We’ve consolidated the templates used by short text content types on GOV.UK.

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What do we mean by responsible building?

Posted by: Jennifer Allum, Posted on: 24 July 2017 - Categories: How we work
Sam Dub

We’ve been talking a lot in GOV.UK about our need to deliver responsibly through our 2017 to 2018 roadmap. We’re having 4 x 11 week mission periods and we want to ensure that while we deliver at pace, we don’t …

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