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If content is king, who rules our land?
As Sarah Richards has already said, the citizen beta of GOV.UK is as much about radical simplicity in words as it is about design and back-end innovation. In a few murky corridors, clarity is still...
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GCloud phase 2 – Apply now!
On May 18th, the new and improved Cloudstore was released. With added functionality and more interaction between government and supplier possible, Mark O’Neill, Proposition Director – Services,...
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Francis Maude speaks at Intellect Public Services Conference 2012
“Digital is not another channel, it is the delivery choice for this generation” - Francis Maude, Minister for Cabinet Office said at the Intellect World-Class Public Services Conference today, 11 June...
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Cabinet Office joins the Open Identity Exchange
On Tuesday, 12th June, Mike Bracken announced that the Cabinet Office will be joining the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). The Identity Assurance Programme team explain how this will enhance a process of...
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Jordan meets Francis
Last week Jordan Hatch, Developer with Government Digital Service met Francis Maude, Minister for Cabinet Office for a quick chat. Last week, I met with Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office...
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Digital a key component for Civil Service Reform Plan
The Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude today launched the Civil Service Reform Plan and we were glad to welcome him and Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service, to GDS this morning in...
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Riding the Paradigm – where agile meets programme
There are challenges to running an agile approach to delivery inside a larger organisation where agile is not yet fully understood. We are frequently asked how we approach these challenges and manage...
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Introducing the Digital Performance Framework – Alpha release
Managing transactional services is a complex task and can be quite bewildering with many systems and measurements involved. However, because we have digital tools and technologies, we can now pull...
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The speed of change
When a user sent a tweet about a possible improvement on GOV.UK, it became a great example of how quickly an agile team can respond to feedback. Chris Heathcote from the GDS design team explains how...
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Open Data White Paper commits Government to publishing Developer Engagement...
The Cabinet Office has today published its Open Data White Paper (Unleashing the potential), a timely move given the UK’s current position as co-chair of the Open Government Partnership of 55...
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Civil Service Live – Social media workshop
On Wednesday 4th July, GDS ran a 30 minute workshop called ‘Social media guidelines: So what?’ at Civil Service Live. In a slightly departure from the usual presentation style at Civil Service Live, we...
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The SEO war – fighting the good fight in search
At GDS we’re using search data to inform every aspect of content production. It’s no dry data analysis though, search logs reveal surprising insights about what people really want. Lana Gibson, Product...
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Switching voices – @gdsteam
To coincide with the recent release of the next iteration of GOV.UK, Louise Kidney, Digital Engagement Lead explains why we are changing the name of our Twitter account and what you can expect to see...
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Webfonts in practice
We started using a new font on GOV.UK last week, and received feedback that it wasn’t working in everyones browsers. Creative lead Chris Heathcote details the changes the team has made to make sure the...
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Iterate. Then iterate again.
After we launched the iteration of GOV.UK two weeks ago we received a lot of feedback via Twitter and email regarding the changes we had made to the visual design of the site. Alex Torrance, User...
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Public reading stages – a second iteration
Last Thursday the second iteration of a tool to allow comments on Bills passing through the House of Commons process went live. Steph Gray from Helpful Technology explains why a second iteration was...
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EVL is not evil
At GDS we have weekly show and tell sessions where new prototypes and iterations of work are shown. These always focus on user need. A few weeks ago, Tom Loosemore showed us a prototype of a tweaked...
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Data Driven Delivery
Every year, central and local government serve citizens and businesses through one and a half billion transactions. For the first time, we’ve collected together a list of these transactional services...
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What I’ve learned (so far) doing product management in government
I was recently invited to give a short talk at Agile Teacamp, an event where people come to learn about and share their experiences with agile software development. They’re friendly and informal events...
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‘Simpler, clearer, faster’ at the Driving Standards Agency
Youtube is the third biggest website in the world which means a massive potential audience, but only if you get your content right. Here, John Ploughman, Digital Communications Manager at the Driving...
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