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.
Three weeks ago we launched revised content and publishing guidance to make it easier for GOV.UK publishers to find information about style, content design and using Whitehall publisher. It’s still a work in progress, so since then we’ve filled in …
As we transition more organisations and their related content onto GOV.UK we increase the likelihood of returning lower quality results to our users. This blog post outlines one approach we are looking at called scoped search, or automatic filtering, to …
This month we’re running a content clinic in Sheffield for the first time. It’s a great opportunity to discuss ideas or issues with other editors, or get answers to your questions from GDS content designers. We’ll also tell you what …
...made progress on adding email notifications to sub-topics and to the 2 finders for drug and medical device safety information (these finders won’t launch until the Medicines and Healthcare Products...
The Transition Tool will be offline for a few hours on Tuesday 28 October 2014. What you need to know Because the transition tool will be offline: there will be no transitions on 27, 28 or 29 October users will …
Government publishes lots of news. Every month, we add around 500 news stories to GOV.UK. We know from our metrics that large numbers of people are reading news content - there are roughly 4 million monthly page views for news stories …
Today we’ve published the beta of our revised publishing guidance in the new manuals format. We’ve created a sub topic ‘Content and publishing’ which we recommend you bookmark. From there you can find 4 manuals: Content design: planning, managing and …
We’ve previously blogged about how we’ve been using Tableau to see how users look at departments and policy content on GOV.UK. We mentioned we wanted to make data more available to digital publishing teams, so we’re really excited to share …
...the process of registering a birth or death overseas for a further 35 countries finished work on the ability to mark content as being in beta added a postcode filter...
This clinic was a little different from previous ones. There was a lot to show so there were more presentations than usual. Visualising publications data Ashraf Chohan showed visualisations of data about how many publication content items are published and …
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.