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GovWifi: ready to make more connections
GovWifi, developed and managed by Government Digital Service (GDS), is a single wifi login which can be simply and cheaply installed by government departments over their existing infrastructure....
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Why we blog in government: Blog Camp 2017
When I was preparing my talk for this year’s Blog Camp – a capability building event for blog editors across government – I came across a slide from one of the talks from last year’s event. It said:...
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Why we’re marking National Inclusion Week 2017 at GDS
At GDS we’ve been celebrating National Inclusion Week. This year’s theme is ‘Connect for inclusion’, and we’ve been running events and discussing the importance of how we value difference at work and...
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Help us update the Service Standard
The Digital Service Standard came into force in April 2014. It exists to help government build and run effective, user-focused digital services. All public-facing transactional services must meet the...
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Make procurement open: it makes government better
On 11 September, GDS and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) hosted the ‘Open Procurement for a Digital Government’ event. Hosted at Digital Catapult, the event brought together digital, data and...
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It’s ok to talk about mental health
We believe that having an inclusive and diverse team makes GDS better and more effective. We’ve posted before about why an inclusive culture is so important. Inclusion is about allowing people to be...
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Transforming transport content: the journey so far
We want to make it easier for users to find what they need on GOV.UK. To achieve this, we are: grouping all GOV.UK content into subject-based categories (creating a taxonomy) improving the content...
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GOV.UK at 5: well-primed for the future
Kevin Cunnington, Director General, GDS Five years ago, with agencies and other departments, GDS took 2,000 government sites and turned them into a single publishing platform. We consolidated and...
View ArticleWe’re making accessibility clearer and easier
The GDS Accessibility team is here to make it easier for departments to build digital services that are accessible for everyone. We want to ensure that there are no barriers that might prevent anyone...
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Join the Open Standards Board
There are 4 vacancies on the Open Standards Board. We want expert volunteers from outside government to take part in this important work. Interested? Read on to find out more... The Open Standards...
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GDS Academy, HMRC and DWP partner on first cross-university internship scheme
The GDS Academy, DWP and HMRC recently ran an internship programme with 3 universities. Students from University of Leeds, University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University attended an...
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Building the GOV.UK Design System
We’ve been developing a new design system for government services. GOV.UK Design System will contain all the styles, components and design patterns that teams in government need to create user-centred...
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Celebrating diversity: the GDSBAME network on its first birthday
One of the talks that took place at GDS during this year’s Black History Month. We’re the co-founders and co-chairs of the GDS Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff network. In this blog post, we...
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Bringing policy and digital together to deliver contracts
Government buyers and suppliers have told us that they sometimes find government contracts long, complicated and hard to use. So we’re working with Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the Government Legal...
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GDS Academy: sharing with other governments
Through the GDS Academy, we are helping the government to achieve its ambition to have one of the most digitally skilled populations of civil servants in the world. In recent years, our work has come...
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Ten tips for getting the best from workshops
In the GOV.UK content improvements team, workshops are vital. Workshops with our department colleagues give us a joint view of our challenges and a shared sense of ownership – but planning and running...
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Getting started as a content designer in a product or service team
I’m a content designer on the Service Performance team (formerly Government Service Data/Performance Platform). We’re building a new product designed to give people standardised high-level metrics...
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How cross-government communities can support cross-government services
To a user, a service is simple. It’s something that helps them to do something – like learn to drive or start a business. But for government, creating and delivering these services can be much more...
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Working with Citizens Advice and its amazing data
I worked with Citizens Advice and its data for 7 months. In this post, I explain how this continued collaboration improves government services, content, policy and user experience. Citizens Advice is...
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6 ways we’re helping to make government services better in 2018
As Head of User-Centered Design and Service Standards at the Government Digital Service (GDS) and across government, it’s my role to support government to design and build user-centred services. At GDS...
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