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Building a new tagging infrastructure for GOV.UK

Posted by: Tijmen Brommet, Posted on: 14 April 2016 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …

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Finding things audit (2/2): how early years went

Posted by: Ale del Cueto and Dave Hallworth, Posted on: 23 February 2016 - Categories: Finding things, How we work

Education is the first theme of the GDS finding things project, and early years is the first content area. As we’ve now completed our audit of the early years content, and it went pretty smoothly, other departments have been asking …

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Finding things audit (1/2): what, why, how

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 19 February 2016 - Categories: Finding things, How we work

The finding things taxonomy work has completed the first content audit. This involved editors from different organisations reviewing all the content about early years education and childcare provision (eg childminding). Here's how we got on.

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Rebuilding browse based on user needs

Posted by: Charlotte Clancy, Posted on: 14 July 2015 - Categories: Product changes

This week we’re launching a new section of GOV.UK: ‘childcare and parenting’. It contains existing content, organised in a different way: based on user need. Right now, it looks very similar to the rest of mainstream browse, but this is …

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Making it easier to find things on GOV.UK

Posted by: Ben Andrews, Posted on: 6 March 2015 - Categories: How we work

Late last year, we finished transitioning the websites of more than 300 government organisations onto GOV.UK. Since then we’ve formed a new team to focus on improving navigation to make it easier for GOV.UK users to find what they need, …

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Preparing for transition: meeting specialist user needs

Posted by: Mark Hazelby, Posted on: 19 March 2014 - Categories: Transition, User insights

Associate Product Manager John Turnbull sets out how we're getting GOV.UK ready for the thousands of specialists  who will use the site after more than 300 government websites move to GOV.UK later this year.  As Neil outlined in his blog post, …

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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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