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.
User needs workshops: testing and trialling
We held our first few user needs workshops with agencies at the end of September, in order to test the format of the sessions. Thanks to feedback from both agency and GDS colleagues following these trials, we’ve iterated different versions …
Testing our new browse pages
Over the summer, we've been exploring ways to improve browsing GOV.UK. Our goal is to get users to their destination faster and to make pages simpler to scan and understand. We've started with the Business section, to see what we …
Coming up in the next fortnight in the transition team
Here are some of the things we’re working on in the next 2 weeks: User needs workshops. Over the last fortnight we’ve completed 6 trial user needs workshops. We’ve used these trials to refine the format of the workshop and …
Featuring on topics: what publishers need to know
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From early next week, it will be possible to feature important content on topic pages in the departments and policy section of …
This sprint for gov.uk/government: sorting documents in collections, publisher improvements and more
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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'll be working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Translating contact details. We're going to make contact details on organisation pages (in particular Wales Office) and Worldwide office pages (embassies …
Shipping new detailed guides
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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How we work, Product changes
Improving the effectiveness of detailed guides has been a priority of ours for some time now. In particular we've been working with departments to move the content that was either not meeting a clear user need or not guidance from …
So how’s this Inside GOV.UK blog thing working out for you?
It’s been a few months now since we started blogging here about how we’re making and improving the GOV.UK website . So it’s high time we asked you whether you reckon we’re making a good job of it (the blogging, …
Do people read your emails?
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Tara Stockford, Senior Performance Analyst at GOV.UK, GDS, Posted on:
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User insights
Like a lot of teams working in government departments, we send round regular update emails to a large group. Often, we don't hear anything back. Is this because people aren't interested, or because we're giving them all the information they …
Agencies and arm’s length bodies: transition to GOV.UK
The first government agencies have now started their move onto GOV.UK. There's a big challenge ahead. This stage of the transition will bring more than 300 agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs) into a single website, GOV.UK. Once it's completed, GOV.UK will see …
Mapping how users get to government content on GOV.UK
Visualising analytics data can help us see trends and gain insights into things that aren’t possible to see just by looking at the numbers in our standard analytics interface. The diagram above (and here in an interactive form) is one …
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