Designing GOV.UK Chat for the GOV.UK app
Designing GOV.UK Chat for the GOV.UK app
Learn how we designed GOV.UK Chat to integrate into the GOV.UK app and the improvements we made based on user insights.
Changes to the GOV.UK content design team
Starting 16 March, we’re changing how the content design team in GOV.UK is organised so we can develop closer working relationships across government and prioritise our work more efficiently. We’re also making it easier for GDS content designers to learn …
Posts about GOV.UK elsewhere
In case you missed them, here are two posts relevant to GOV.UK which were published on the GDS design notes blog this week: Designing with data(bases) - a post about...
Introducing improvement plans
Update: 19 June 2015 We have now restructured our product teams and set out our goals until April 2016. We are prioritising running the live site, supporting users and - with the capacity that remains - raising the quality of …
GOV.UK now has an 'archiving' policy
We've published a new policy about when content on GOV.UK should be withdrawn and, more importantly, when it should not.
Content clinic, 17 March 2015
Join us at the next content clinic at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in London, 17 March 2015, from 3:30 to 5:30pm. We'll catch up with colleagues across government, share best practice and discuss content problems. We’re trying …
Roadmap update: Wednesday 11 March
...at a time added data about ministers and roles to the content store, which will be needed to make ‘history mode’ work added the concept of government administrations to our...
Posts about GOV.UK elsewhere
Three posts about GOV.UK from other blogs, in case you missed them:
Making it easier to find things on GOV.UK
Late last year, we finished transitioning the websites of more than 300 government organisations onto GOV.UK. Since then we’ve formed a new team to focus on improving navigation to make it easier for GOV.UK users to find what they need, …
The first GOV.UK local meetup: what we did
...been done in the week, and what’s coming up next week. Manuals We talked about the new manuals format and showed off this great example from the Department for Education...
Thinking big: content strategy principles for government
We want to promote a common strategy for content teams across government. This is so we collectively improve content quality across government and identify and fix those things that stop us from meeting our principles. We need all the content …
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Download the GOV.UK app
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.