What’s next for the content design community
At last week's Content Design Conference a few of us huddled around a table at Impact Hub Westminster to talk about one of my favourite things: the future.
Linking to external publications: now clearer and more flexible
We’ve made it easier to link to publications hosted outside GOV.UK in a way which is clear and useful for users. When you use the publication format you have 3 options: upload a file create an HTML attachment indicate the publication is …
Info pages: publishing data about user needs and metrics
We’ve just launched ‘info’ pages on GOV.UK. These pages aim to help anyone who publishes on GOV.UK to: start content design with user needs spot problems and potential improvements with existing content
Content clinic 18 September: what we talked about
This clinic was a little different from previous ones. There was a lot to show so there were more presentations than usual. Visualising publications data Ashraf Chohan showed visualisations of data about how many publication content items are published and …
Web editors: next content clinic, Thursday 18 September
The next content clinic will be on Thursday 18 September, from 11:30am to 1:00pm, at the Department for Transport. We can’t head to the pub afterwards, but do bring a lunch. To book a place using Eventbrite, you’ll need the …
Content clinic in Bristol: what we talked about
On 30 July we held our first content clinic outside London, at the Environment Agency in Bristol. We had over 20 GOV.UK publishers from a number of agencies based in the south-west of England. Here are the answers to some of …
Data visualising: refining the data on departments and policy content
We recently blogged about using Tableau to visualise how 'departments and policy' content is being viewed on GOV.UK based on data for May.
Content clinic July: London and Bristol
We're running an extra content clinic at the Environment Agency in Bristol this month, as well as our usual London clinic at the Department for Transport. It's open to anyone creating content on GOV.UK in the area. London, 23 July 3pm …
Content clinic 26 June: what we discussed
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GDS runs a content clinic once a month, to give editors and writers from departments and agencies a chance to ask …
Data visualising: how departmental content is being viewed
We're using a new data visualisation tool called Tableau to reveal new information on how 'departments and policy' content is being viewed on GOV.UK. The GDS departments and policy content team currently uses Google Analytics to track how content is viewed and the effects of …
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