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This week at GDS
As the week draws to an end I wanted to tell you a bit about what we’ve been up at to GDS this week… GDS helped deliver three big pieces of work this week. The first was on Monday, when GDS...
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The next (business) link in the chain
Huge thanks to Helen Hardy from HMRC for writing this guest post. Helen has worked in the team managing businesslink.gov.uk since January 2009, and she writes here about the evolution of...
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What is Inside Government?
While you tuck into your toffee apple and enjoy the fireworks this evening, make sure you save a few oohs and aahs for us. In ten days’ time, on November 15, the first two government departments will...
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Tools over Content
I’ve talked before about various aspects of how we build software at GDS, and especially for GOV.UK, but I’d like to take a step back and about one of our early design rules: “tools over content”. Many...
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The Government Digital Strategy, and how it was written
This morning Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude published the digital strategy, and I wanted to explain why and how it was developed. An increasingly digital nation The publication of the...
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A bit more about assisted digital
Back in May, we blogged about the work we were just starting on assisted digital. Today, in the Government Digital Strategy, we commit to taking a cross-government approach to assisted digital, to...
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Shipping the digital strategy
As you know, today we launched the Government Digital Strategy. I’m part of the team that was tasked with putting these documents online, and from the outset we wanted to do it in a much more...
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The Digital Efficiency report
One of the best things about well-designed digital services – shopping, banking, booking flights – is how much more efficient they are for users. But an equally big plus of digital is the efficiency...
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The UK’s digital landscape
GDS has published the Digital Landscape Research today alongside the Government Digital Strategy. We want to tell you more about the research, and why we did it. Finding out more about our users Our...
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Welcoming the Digital Strategy
When we launched the Civil Service Reform Plan in June, I said that the Civil Service of the future must look radically different and I asked civil servants to work together to deliver change while...
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Have I got government news for you?
Government is a major news source. As central government departments begin the transition to GOV.UK they’ll be publishing their news in a single place, and we have a fantastic opportunity to improve...
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Publishing the Digital Strategy as a website, rather than on one
I’m Andrew Francis and I’m a policy professional. So is my colleague Sheila Bennett. You might not have heard much from our profession here on the GDS blog recently, but its worth pointing out that the...
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Iterating the trade tariff tool with HMRC
One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and...
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This week at GDS
It’s been a big week at GDS, thanks to the release of the Government Digital Strategy, but that’s not the only thing the team has been up to. Here’s a quick round-up. Last Sunday the...
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A little blog on the side – Inside Inside Government
In several recent posts about the upcoming release of Inside Government we’ve linked in passing to this little blog on the side – a Tumblr where we, the product team building the Inside Government...
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Updating the GOV.UK Performance Dashboard
Today we’re releasing an updated version of our Performance Platform dashboard, the tool that shows analytics data about how GOV.UK is being used. Today’s updates focus on improving the usability and...
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Learning alongside the Inside Government team
Getting departments and agencies ready for the move to GOV.UK isn’t just a job for GDS. John Ploughman, Digital Communication Manager for the Driving Standards Agency, talks about what it’s been like...
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Designing for the long read on Inside Government
At GDS we intend the web to be the primary platform for publishing things like policy, speeches and detailed guidance, with any print documents taking a supporting role. As a consequence legibility...
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Showing people around Inside government
As one of the editors working on Inside government, visiting departments to introduce people to the platform can be really rewarding. Last month I went to the Department for Communities and Local...
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Explaining government policy on GOV.UK
As departments move from publishing on separate websites to publishing on GOV.UK, each of them will be contributing to a comprehensive set of web pages that explain government policies clearly,...
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