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.
Earlier this week the GOV.UK Specialist team released a small but important feature to a number of pages in the Departments and Policies section of the site. Simply put, we have added a ‘See all’ link to the end of …
We’ve published a new GOV.UK transition guide for agencies and arm’s length bodies (AALBs), which describes the stages of transition, the main activities that are done at each point and the support Government Digital Service offers. The guide is the …
The current list of publication sub-types was based on the things that central government departments publish: Now that hundreds of agencies and arm’s length bodies are moving to GOV.UK, it’s time to revisit this list, and make sure it reflects …
An experimental blogpost, in which we see whether you’re interested in us telling you what GOV.UK teams have done in the last two weeks, and what we’ll be working on in the next two weeks. (This post covers User Formats …
We use an agile project management approach. As you may already know, agile has several main features. Here’s how we use them for mainstream. Sprints We divide our time into ‘sprints’. A GOV.UK mainstream sprint lasts a week and runs …
We love updating people about all the things we’re doing at GDS - and there’s so much to talk about! But here’s a round-up of useful blog posts focused on the needs of those leading the transition to GOV.UK in …
On Friday 28 February, we’ll be holding our first GOV.UK content clinic, at the Department for Transport in London. Find out what to expect and how to sign up. Content clinics: what they are Content clinics are open to any …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. With a lot of new organisations coming onto GOV.UK, I thought I would clear up a couple of style points. Ampersands: …
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“You have to really hold your nerve with this - if we do this as a community, we can make this really work.” Rachel Neaman, Digital Leader, Department of Health, set the tone for SPRINT GO with her keynote speech. …