Making it quicker and easier to search on GOV.UK
Making it quicker and easier to search on GOV.UK
We’ve made some changes to the interface of site search on GOV.UK to create a simpler, more user-friendly experience.
Detailed guides: when and how to use them
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Now that agencies and ALBs are beginning to create detailed guides, based on their validated user needs, we thought it would …
6 principles for smoothing out the user journey
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Our analytics guru Lana Gibson recently showed us how to improve our users’ experience by looking at what people were searching …
Removing format names
Back in June, I wrote about retiring our format icons — they didn’t test well and ultimately weren’t useful to users. Though the icons were removed, we kept the format names. These are labels that denote the type of content …
Introducing user research to transition
GDS places a lot of emphasis on user needs, and with good reason. Without knowing what our users’ needs are, how can we provide them with the right information and services? During transition we ask you to gather data from …
We think people like being able to preview CSV files
Earlier in the month, we introduced a feature to GOV.UK which allowed users to get a sneak preview of CSV files without having to download them. When we wrote about the change we promised to give you some early feedback …
Better feed links
There are several pages on GOV.UK which have feeds you can subscribe to in a feed reader. Feeds allow you to see what is new across these pages without having to visit them individually. In the past, we linked directly to …
Specialist users on GOV.UK
The original vision for GOV.UK identified three broad user groups and until recently much of our energy has been spent on the first two, resulting in the 'Services and information' and 'Departments and policy' sections of the site. There is …
Style guide alpha
Today we’re releasing another stage in the alpha of the style guide. We’ve added 2 new sections, writing for the web and the style guide for services, to help content designers throughout government and new editors at arm’s length bodies. …
Paying down (technical) debt in the departments and policy publishing platform
There has been a noticeable slowdown in the pace of new features on the departments and policy publishing platform. Not that we've been resting on our laurels, far from it. Instead we’ve taken a conscious decision to spend some time …
The secret life of email alerts: why you should add a policy
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I'm John from DCLG and I work on curating the content which gets included in GOV.UK's daily email alerts for local …
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