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.
The ‘publishing essentials’ email list - and a few other changes
We’ve been running a few sessions with government organisations to look at how we can more clearly communicate developments to GOV.UK. In response, we’re introducing some changes to this blog. ‘Publishing essentials’: only get emails about the really important stuff The …
New "specialist sector" option in publisher
...idea is that, in future, content in any format from across GOV.UK will be able to be grouped together around specialist topics. These specialist or "sector" browse pages will replace...
GOV.UK social sharing buttons: the first 10 weeks
Before Christmas, Neil blogged about how we’d introduced social sharing buttons as an experiment to four of our content types. Now we’ve had the chance to look at the first 10 weeks of data, we wanted to report back. Why …
Policy pages: maintaining consistency across departments
GOV.UK has over 116,000 items of content in departmental and policy areas. It’s vital that each one of these meets a user need and doesn’t duplicate any other content item. Maintaining consistency across policies and departments is essential to earn users’ trust. …
Use the GDS support form (Zendesk)
For most questions you have during your transition, you'll need to contact your transition manager directly. Questions about how to publish content If you have a problem with using the publishing tool, first check the publisher manual. If you are …
Content quality spot checks explained
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've been piloting an editorial quality report for departments to help maintain the content’s clarity and usability. These reports are a …
Slides from SPRINT GO
The slides from the SPRINT GO workshops are now available. If you weren't able to make the event on 30 January, or want to refer back to the workshops, here are the full presentations. Agile for everyone, by Amy Wagner: …
Business finance support: opening up GOV.UK data
Update: as part of our migration work to make our frontend architecture simpler, we will be removing the business support API. See Tim's blog post for more details and dates you need to know.
The art of redirection
Over the next few months a huge number of agencies and arms length bodies will move to GOV.UK and it’s our job to make sure all the old links to these sites continue to work. Sites like the Environment Agency …
SPRINT GO: moving to GOV.UK is just the beginning
SPRINT GO took place on Thursday 30 January at the London Film Museum. Colleagues from across agencies and arm’s length bodies came together to talk, share and learn about GOV.UK. The SPRINT GO event was also a launch of a …
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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.