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GOV.UK has entered the Chat: our vision for GOV.UK Chat

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GOV.UK has entered the Chat: our vision for GOV.UK Chat

Learn about our plans for GOV.UK Chat, the AI-powered chat system we’ve built as an easier, quicker way to interact with government.

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Guerrilla testing content - it makes it better

Posted by: John Ploughman, Posted on: 16 November 2015 - Categories: Best practice, How we work, User insights

...And it makes you recognise your own assumptions as a content designer. At the GOV.UK content conference beta, I ran a session to tell the content community about some guerrilla...

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What we’re working on: 13 November 2015

Posted by: Jack Church, Posted on: 13 November 2015 - Categories: What we're working on

...rent property from 1 February 2016. we’ve also updated 3 pieces of mainstream content private renting, check tenant right to rent documents and penalties illegal renting and added a homepage...

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Working with subject matter experts to improve content

Posted by: Keith Emmerson, Content Product Lead, Posted on: 13 November 2015 - Categories: How we work

In this guest post, Amanda McMahon of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) talks about working with subject matter experts (SMEs) to improve GOV.UK content and user engagement. Towards the end of last year, I started thinking about improving content …

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Introducing GOV.UK's Policy and Engagement Team

Posted by: Clive Richardson, Posted on: 9 November 2015 - Categories: Events, How we work, Working with us

...a better description for what we do than 'proposition managers'. Second, in response to a number of requests, we’ve created a new inbox for GOV.UK enquiries. It’s the place to...

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Developing a subject-based taxonomy for GOV.UK

Posted by: Gaynor Burns and Vicky Buser, Posted on: 2 November 2015 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

Why is the topic taxonomy important? We want users to be able to find related content across government about a particular topic via a single browse structure. This is central to  the vision for improving navigation on GOV.UK, as Ben …

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Rebuilding GOV.UK's publishing tools

Posted by: Brad Wright, Posted on: 27 October 2015 - Categories: Product changes

As Neil explained in the GOV.UK 3rd birthday post, we’re focused on 2 main priorities for the rest of this financial year.

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Improving navigation on GOV.UK

Posted by: Ben Andrews, Posted on: 27 October 2015 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

One of the biggest frustrations users sometimes have with GOV.UK is the difficulty of finding what they need - and discovering what they don’t yet know they need - through site search and navigation.

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Happy 3rd birthday, GOV.UK

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 16 October 2015 - Categories: How we work, Vision and plans
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...that, I’ll also be developing a renewed vision for what GOV.UK should become in the years ahead. I’m keen to hear from people inside and outside of government with ideas...

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Getting the content design community together

Posted by: John Turnbull, Posted on: 6 October 2015 - Categories: How we work, Working with us

Guest post from Dave Hallworth, Managing Editor at the Department for Education (DfE), and Jeni Pitkin, Digital Content Officer at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In January 2015 we went to the GDS Content Design Conference. This …

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What we’re working on: 2 October 2015

Posted by: Jack Church, Posted on: 2 October 2015 - Categories: What we're working on

...SaBRE, Horizon 2020 and 26 HM Tribunals (just courts left to go!) Mission: Content improvement themes alpha completed our Certificate of Professional Competence driver content improvement theme to improve the...

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