Learn about the key findings from our pilots of GOV.UK Chat, and how we’ve evaluated its performance ahead of the next phase.
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.
...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...
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 …
...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...
...lot of respect for the work that had been done to publish the Summer 2015 Budget in HTML. Using Google Analytics, we can now track how often PDFs are downloaded....
...other colleagues across government, we’ve also: enabled GDS content designers to create short ('friendly') URLs without the need for developer input fixed a bug that stopped the Whitehall publishing application...
...weeks we expect to: complete SaBrE and Planning inspectorate transitions complete our improvement work on Emergency travel documents content upgrade Ruby and Rails for the static app alert out of...
A detailed guide is a content type used for answering specific, task-oriented user needs or providing advice to specialist or professional audiences. There are more than 4,000 detailed guides published on GOV.UK, on topics ranging from calculating your school milk …
Editors often want to be able to preview their content as it will appear on the site, before making it live. Some of our publishing tools support this – for example Whitehall Publisher – but they’re not very consistent, and many …
...to www.gov.uk/guidance/balancing-water-resources allow GDS editors to withdraw and redirect statistics announcements consistently send organisational data to Google Analytics for all pages display an unsupported browser warning message for publishing tools...
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out what’s been happening, and what’s coming next, on the GDS blog.