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.
GOV.UK high-level roadmap - Quarter 2, 2015
Following on from the recent trio of posts in which we talked about the operating context, team structure and goals for GOV.UK in 2015 to 2016, we’ve now completed the...
Renaming ‘Topics’ in Whitehall publisher
We blogged recently about the changes we’re making to the browse pages on GOV.UK. This is part of the work we’re doing to make it easier to find things. The next, small step is happening this week. The association (tag) …
Improving content with anonymous feedback
At the bottom of most pages on GOV.UK, we ask ‘Is there anything wrong with this page?’. We collect the responses anonymously, in our Feedback explorer tool, sometimes called Feedex. These responses help content designers and publishers fix what’s wrong …
What we’re working on: 26 June 2015
...subtopic browse page URLs - this will help with subtopic namespace clashes (eg there's already a detailed guide at www.gov.uk/animal-welfare, so now we can have a /animal-welfare subtopic) and also...
Improving content for display on mobile
GOV.UK will be 3 years old this October. So we decided it was time for a group of content designers to take a more detailed look at how GOV.UK works on mobile devices. We knew GOV.UK was designed to be …
54 deployments in 1 day
Last Wednesday, GOV.UK’s team of 22 developers upgraded and re-deployed a record 54 applications in just 6 hours. This was to deal with a potential security threat discovered in the software we use (Ruby on Rails and some dependent libraries). On …
Publishing official documents
June and July are the peak times for publishing official documents, particularly annual reports and accounts. You must publish all official documents on GOV.UK - even if you’re an exempt agency (one that doesn’t normally publish on GOV.UK). This process …
The goals for GOV.UK in 2015 to 2016
...clearer, faster access to government services and information. That means providing a single place for people to interact with government that’s as frictionless as possible, and which continuously improves. And...
Product team changes to support users better
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals We’re restructuring the teams in our product group to reflect the new normal for GOV.UK. This post explains why we’re making changes, what …
The new normal for GOV.UK
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals. Since the beta release of GOV.UK in January 2012, the GOV.UK team has been hard at work building, scaling up and iterating the …
Related content and links
GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
GOV.UK is moving to be multi-channel. Learn more about our priorities by reading our strategy for growth.
Subscribe to Inside GOV.UK to keep up to date with our work.