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.
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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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 …
Show us the evidence
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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User insights
Departmental editors often get in contact with us to make requests for changes. We welcome suggestions, but usually we need to collect more evidence before we can make a decision. So we were grateful when No 10 asked us to …
Eleven months of publishing on GOV.UK
John Ploughman is Digital Communication Manager for the Driving Standards Agency, one of the first agencies to move to GOV.UK almost a year ago. In this guest post, John talks about the move and what it’s been like publishing on …
Goodbye series, hello collections
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Neil Williams and Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Product changes
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From today, the "series" format in the departments and policy section will metamorphose to become "collections". This post contains essential information for publishers …
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
GOV.UK is moving to be multi-channel. Learn more about our priorities by reading our strategy for growth.
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