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.
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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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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
This sprint for gov.uk/government: official documents, archiving and unpublishing
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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: Finishing off work on document series to become collections. This will be shipped today, making the workflow on collections (formerly known as …
GOV.UK one year on
A year ago today - at around 4am in fact - GOV.UK came out of beta, becoming the best place to find government services and information. Twelve months on, and we have 1000 publishers using the platform, six million visitors …
GOV.UK one year on: 6 million visitors a week
GOV.UK celebrates its first birthday today. We’ve written about some of the most interesting data we’ve seen this year in the run-up. GOV.UK averages over 6 million unique visitors per week and over 9 million visits. That’s twice as many …
GOV.UK one year on: 10,000 new organ donors
Back in August, Tom Loosemore wrote about some A/B testing we've been doing alongside colleagues from the NHS, Department for Transport, Department for Health and the Behavioural Insights Team from the Cabinet Office. We wanted to learn how GOV.UK might …
GOV.UK transition: the best links from the last two weeks
This round-up provides links to blog posts and other tools that are particularly useful during transition. James Thornett (Head of Product Management) wrote about the transition team’s work and how we’re meeting the needs of new audiences. Mapping how users …
GOV.UK one year on: the Andy Murray effect
GOV.UK celebrates its first birthday on Thursday. We’ll be writing about some of the most interesting data we’ve seen this year in the run-up. Visitors normally come to GOV.UK to get things done or find out information to help with …
Featuring on topics is live: please feature something today!
The ability to feature content on topic pages is now available. It was deployed to production early last week. We're keen to see the impact this change will have on bounce rates on topic pages. User research and analytics tell us …
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