Updating GOV.UK’s crown
Updating GOV.UK’s crown
We have a new crown in our logo for the first time. Find out how we made this change and why.
This sprint for gov.uk/government: better policy detail and tagging to topics
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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What we're working on
Here are the most significant things we’re working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Improve policy supporting detail pages. The supporting detail pages for policies explain the government schemes used to implement each policy. For example, on the …
News analysis: early edition
We’ve just started to look in a bit more detail about how users are interacting with news pages on GOV.UK. But we already have some interesting early findings, which we wanted to share. Our data is based on the 608 …
Coming up in the next fortnight in the transition team
Here are some of the things we're working on over the next couple of weeks: Prioritisation The team is continuing to prioritise the transition timeline for all 330+ agencies and arm’s length bodies (AALBs). With department leads, we are prioritising …
GOV.UK transition: the best links from the last two weeks
This round-up provides links to blog posts that are particularly useful during transition. GOV.UK One year on James Thornett, Head of Product Management, wrote about the data performance and things we’ve learned in the past 12 months on GOV.UK. Transition …
A tool to capture user needs (and measure performance)
A small team at GDS is working on the User Needs project. The first thing we’re doing is building Maslow - a tool to capture user needs. In the next few weeks, agencies that are transitioning to GOV.UK will be able to …
GOV.UK one year on: twice as many visits
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Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on:
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User insights
A few weeks ago, GOV.UK had more than 2 million visits in one day for the first time, on Monday 30 September. It wasn’t long before we reached another milestone, with more than 10 million visits in one week from …
A round-up of small features
Here is a list of smaller features we've shipped in the past month or so which government publishers will want to know about. Support for unique logos. Organisations which have been granted exemption from the single government identity system can …
Recent problems with attachments changing order
As important as it is to highlight the successes of GOV.UK, it's just as important that we discuss our mistakes. A little over a week ago we began receiving reports of attachments that were incorrectly ordered on the site, or …
How to make normal, urgent and emergency GOV.UK support requests
We’ve recently developed a set of standards to guide the GOV.UK team’s response to requests from government organisations. The standards are posted in full over here - but if you’re short of time, here’s the one-minute version. The basic performance …
Finance and support for your business, redesigned
We’ve recently been working on a tool called the business finance and support finder. It’s designed to help visitors find government funding and support for their business and was in need of a review having not been worked on for …
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