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.
Publication pages: how to make them lovely
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. There are a lot of publication pages on GOV.UK: over 40,000 at the last count. They look simple, but it can …
Measuring changes in traffic: how to create a report
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Reports can be created in any standard Google Analytics report. To monitor changes in traffic to individual pages use the All …
Force publish and compare versions - changes to publisher
New 'force publish' tracking As most of you are now probably aware, there is a new prompt when anyone force publishes content. This feature (which went live as last week's...
A bit of clarification on the use of 'quarter' and 'qtr' (or similar)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We're bringing Inside Government content in line with mainstream on the...
Sprint ending 25th June
...Gov on other parts of GOV.UK, like the travel alerts service. Knowing when the office is open is usually helpful to people before they rock up there. Cleaned up a...
How search works
The improved GOV.UK site search has been up for a few days now. It makes things better for users by headlining the top 3 search results, then showing the rest...
Sprint ending 18 June is all about transition
...this: Currently this is just a view of the data. The work for this week includes beginning to get data into the tool automatically and enabling organisations to edit it....
Foreign language only documents
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Translated editions of documents have been a feature of Whitehall for...
Duplicate titles in site search
There’s been a GDS team diligently working away improving search on GOV.UK. They’ve asked us to relay some important general advice to Whitehall publishers. They’ve come across several apparent duplicate results while testing site search, which are confusing users. There are two …
Embedding contact information into pages
Inserting contacts into pages just got lots easier. Instead of going to the organisation admin and copying the contact reference markdown to your clipboard, you can now just start typing...
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