As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.
The process of transition doesn’t end when a site moves to GOV.UK, in fact the days after switch-over are crucial. People use the Transition Tool for different tasks before and after a site moves. Before transition, it’s all about publishing …
We’ve already written a post about the new organisation template and our reasons for creating it. This is an update about the impact of using the new layout for DVLA. After the search page and the home page, DVLA's organisation …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I spent last week at the Department for Transport, working with the content designers there. Ahead of this, we came up …
We’ve just launched 37 new content analytics dashboards onto the Performance Platform. We hope they will help people in government departments and agencies see at a glance how their content is performing. This blogpost tells you why we’ve built them, and …
The next GOV.UK content clinic is on Wednesday 28 May, 3pm to 4:30pm at the Department for Transport (DFT). Book a place If you're using Whitehall Publisher to publish content on GOV.UK, this clinic is for you. Go to Eventbrite and choose the …
Government publishers can now more accurately describe to users what’s happened to ‘closed’ organisations. This blogpost tells you how we’ve modelled the changes, and what government publishers should do now. When ‘closed’ isn’t quite right Every now and then, government adjusts …
Loads of changes to GOV.UK to tell you about this time - including a brand-new search. Things we’ve done in the past couple of weeks: the top 10 Released unified search onto the live site (goodbye search tabs!) Added workflow and …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. One of the principles behind GOV.UK is that users shouldn’t need to know what each government department or agency is responsible …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We ran a slightly smaller content clinic this month, due to the Tube strike. But there was still plenty to talk …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. All content on GOV.UK should start with needs. Before creating a detailed guide, you must specify the user need. We've released …