[A guest post from Anthony Simon, Head of Digital Communications for the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office, about how GOV.UK has helped government communicate about major events] The Number 10 and Cabinet Office digital team plays an important role in driving …
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. 1 in 5 visits to GOV.UK are made on a mobile phone - that’s a third …
Over the past week, there’s been a huge amount of media interest in the sale of Royal Mail shares. We’ve seen this trend reflected in high numbers of visits to GOV.UK - in fact, at times, almost one in three …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.