Designing GOV.UK Chat for the GOV.UK app
Designing GOV.UK Chat for the GOV.UK app
Learn how we designed GOV.UK Chat to integrate into the GOV.UK app and the improvements we made based on user insights.
Barcharts in HTML publications: new feature
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Tables in HTML publications can now be made into barcharts automatically. These charts follow style guide recommendations and are accessible to …
Document series: what the analytics tell us
I’ve been looking at the analytics for document series pages, particularly the distribution of pages, how users were getting to them and where they were going next. This is because, as we wrote recently, the product team are working on …
More flexible tagging to topics
Publications, news articles and other documents in the government section can now be tagged directly to relevant topics, instead of the topic being inferred automatically via policies. This is a significant change, so publishers in government organisations may want to …
Update on caches and timely publishing
...look into how we might make improvements to reduce the risk and impact of cache-based misadventures. After lots of thoughtful and thorough analysis (about which we will blog separately) we...
Redesigning change notes and measuring the result
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User insights
Usually, users want to see the latest and most up to date information on a given policy, announcement, consultation etc. But they may also want to know how it has changed. We have this information, because our publishing tool requires …
The GOV.UK homepage - how is it performing?
On 23 July, GOV.UK released the latest version of its homepage: As Stephen McCarthy explained in his post, this revision followed the move of many more organisations to GOV.UK. We wanted to help users find information from government departments more …
New notifications for virus checks
Yesterday's release included a new feature to let publishers know the status of uploaded files while they are scanned for viruses. When publishers attach a file to a document, they...
How to request the removal of content
I am a member of the GOV.UK User Support team, responsible for improving the [government-only] support form (found at https://www.gov.uk/support/internal). Back in April, we described the process for removing content from the frontend. To make this process easier, we have now added …
Sprint plan for 7-20 August
...to overwrite existing attachments with the same filename; fixes for Welsh language translation of the Wales Office homepage, among other things As ever, you can see the stories for yourself...
Planned changes to how you use document series
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Product changes
We keep hearing from our editors that you'd like a more flexible document series. At the moment, you can add a title and a summary to a document series, but the documents themselves are automatically grouped by content type and …
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