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.
Introducing GOV.UK proposition managers
Last year, colleagues across government did some great work on the GOV.UK proposition. Now 3 proposition managers are in place to continue this work, as well as help publishers get the most from GOV.UK.
Who looks at GOV.UK during Christmas?
While most of us are tucking into a turkey, or watching the mandatory re-run of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, some people take the time to go onto GOV.UK. Traffic on the site was at 20% of normal levels, but that …
300+ websites to just 1 in 15 months
It's hard to believe that a little over 15 months ago each of the government’s 300+ agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs) had their own website.
Improving how attachments and change notes display on publication pages
We’ve had some requests from departments to look into improving publication pages. We’ve looked at the data to better understand how publication pages are being used and made changes to the design. We will be rolling these out on GOV.UK …
Restructuring Whitehall publisher so we can keep iterating
As we mentioned in our roadmap update on 21st November, we’ve started a project to restructure and improve the Whitehall publisher. These improvements will pave the way for future development of publishing on GOV.UK. This blog post explains a bit …
Time for a rebrand: Product analysts become Performance analysts
The Product analysts are changing their name to Performance analysts. Why? As well as ‘Product analyst’, we're called a number of other names, most of which don't really describe what we do. The Service Manual calls our role Performance analyst …
Roadmap update: Friday 5 December
...Priorities remain unchanged. With mere days left to go, we’re continuing to prioritise above all else the product changes which enable us to transition HMRC, agencies and non-departmental public bodies...
Content and publishing guidance update: 2 December 2014
It’s been a few weeks since we let you know how we’re doing with the beta of our content and publishing guidance. We’ve continued to fill gaps and respond to the feedback we’ve had so far. We’ve received around 100 …
Content clinic 27 November: what we talked about
Content editors came together at the Home Office last week to share knowledge, ask questions and discuss common themes. Here’s what we talked about. GDS updates Mainstream content designer John Turnbull talked about how to write Zendesk tickets. He’s shared …
Changes to the way we do spot checks
We’ve just started our third round of GOV.UK content spot checks and we’ve made some changes to the way we do it. In the first 2 rounds of spot checks we only reviewed content published by government departments. For the …
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