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How Design System Day makes our community stronger
An active community is essential to the GOV.UK Design System. We are a contribution based design system, so continually growing and engaging the community is essential. Functioning communities do not...
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GOV.UK Forms in motion
GOV.UK Forms is now in public beta, enabling all teams across central government to use the platform. We’re also expanding our support and service offering. GOV.UK Forms is an easy to use form...
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GOV.UK One Login: celebrating 50 services
As we come to the end of our initial three-year phase, GOV.UK One Login is now fully operational, and I’m delighted to be able to tell you that we’ve passed a golden milestone. As of October 2024, 50...
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How GDS partners with the OECD on Digital Government
At the Government Digital Service (GDS) our international work includes engagement with multilateral organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The UK’s...
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GOV.UK Forms through the ages
Early developments GOV.UK has thousands of forms which exist as PDFs or other document formats. Users have historically had to download, fill out, and send them back to the department which owns them....
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GOV.UK One Login: Advancing digital sustainability in government
In our last digital sustainability post, we wrote about our ambition to make GOV.UK One Login one of the most sustainable government digital services in operation. We discussed how we had begun this...
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Same name, new ambitions
Last week we shared some news! The digital centre of government we've been talking about will be called the Government Digital Service. We have published its high level plans for the future: A...
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Shaping the new digital centre of government for success
Technology has profoundly changed the way we live our lives and continues to do so. We expect to be able to do almost anything through our phones or laptops. So digital transformation is far from...
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Launching the Artificial Intelligence Playbook for the UK Government
Today, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has launched the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Playbook for the UK Government to provide departments and public sector organisations with accessible technical...
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Joining GDS as a Junior Site Reliability Engineer: Radha's story
Life before GDS I started my career in teaching and moved gradually into the corporate world. I had worked as a software tester but when I came to the UK I had to give up my job for family reasons. I...
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How to become a software developer apprentice: Idris's story
Starting from zero I started work at GDS in February 2022, joining the GOV.UK Pay team. I initially came in and met the team for a week and then I went away to Makers Academy. There I learned to code...
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Visualising modern digital government
The recently published blueprint for a modern digital government was the result of many weeks of researching, sketching and prototyping, by teams working as part of the Digital Centre Design team in...
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Creating interactive design documentation for GOV.UK One Login
Background GOV.UK One Login lets users sign in and prove their identity so they can access government services quickly and easily. User-centred design (UCD) is at the core of our work, ensuring we...
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