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How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

Three information architects standing in front of a large screen displaying a presentation slide which reads: “World Information Architecture Day London 2025. 32 locations, 17 countries, 5 continents.”

How information architects are helping to build GOV.UK’s future

As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.

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What's the max file size for attachment uploads?

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 10 July 2013 - Categories: Best practice

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We get asked this a lot. The answer is 500 Mb - which is way more than you should ever need, …

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How to use analytics to test a hypothesis: Universal Credit case study

Posted by: Lana Gibson, Posted on: 9 July 2013 - Categories: User insights

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’re always looking at the data to see how our content is performing. The tools we’ve built show us trends and …

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Being Zen about Zendesk

Posted by: Liz Lutgendorff, Posted on: 4 July 2013 - Categories: How we work

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. One of the main ways suggestions for content amendments or additions gets fed into our team is through our online request-handling …

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Redesigning browse

Posted by: margarethanley and Henry Hadlow, Posted on: 3 July 2013 - Categories: How we work

Over the last two weeks, a small team in GOV.UK Mainstream have been developing new browse pages. We have two challenges 1. Increasingly additional content needs to be linked via the Browse pages 2. Some of the current pages do …

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Nice example of an HTML publication

Posted by: Ross Ferguson, Posted on: 3 July 2013 - Categories: Best practice

Anyone looking for a new 'go to example' of an HTML publication should check out DVLA's new business plan. We reckon it uses the features well and is pretty good...

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Rethinking navigation

Posted by: Tom Byers, Posted on: 3 July 2013 - Categories: How we work

We've been taking a look at how we use navigation (nav) tags in the HTML of our pages and seen some room for improvement. Nav tags are used to identify blocks of links that share a common navigational theme. For …

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Red asterisks and other innovations in the government publisher

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 2 July 2013 - Categories: Product changes

...on your content, the status of fact check requests, and notifications of documents newly tagged to your organisation, topic(s) and policies. And, ultimately, we plan to combine data from various...

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This sprint: improving publications and consultations

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 2 July 2013 - Categories: What we're working on

On the GOV.UK government team we're switching to two-week sprints as of tomorrow, Wednesday 3 July. Sprinting for a week at a time made sense while we were in the...

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Collaboration, iteration and new formats

Posted by: Natalie Shaw, Posted on: 28 June 2013 - Categories: How we work

We're currently redeveloping the Child Benefit tax calculator, a tool which takes care of a large number of very different user needs. It's the first bespoke calculator for GOV.UK, which will be a move away from the 'choose your own …

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A slight re-jig of the government navigation header

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 28 June 2013 - Categories: Product changes

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed we recently re-jigged the order of items in the header of www.gov.uk/government Before: After: On the top row, "Departments", "Topics" and Worldwide" are...

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