Over 50 million visits and other data stories
The product analysts are always keeping an eye on how GOV.UK is performing, and I thought it would be interesting to share a milestone and some other data about user behaviour. 50 million visits In...
View ArticleWeekend links: Instagram, filtered search, cyclotrons and more
Found a link you think we’d like? Share it with us on Twitter @gdsteam. Take a look at DfID’s Instagram feed – great stories and a real insight into their work. Filtered search is changing the way we...
View ArticleReading the digital revolution
On Monday I gave a talk at Sprint Policy, an event discussing the impact digital technology and digital thinking was having on the world of policymaking. I mentioned a few books, blog posts and ways of...
View ArticleOpen Policy Making and Digital – a happy coupling
So … digital is just about transforming services? No, not in our view, nor in the view of our open policy making colleagues. Yesterday we co-hosted an event with the Open Policy Making (OPM) team in...
View ArticleWeekend links: vCloud, Darwin database, proof of concept and more
Found a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter @gdsteam. Sarah Richards – our ex Head of Content – says users are selfish; find out what she means in this blog post. The National Rail’s...
View ArticleTrying to keep it simple? It’s complicated
Keeping it simple is one of the guiding principles for all content designers. We try to apply it to everything we do, but when the content we’re working with is extra-complicated, it’s not always easy....
View ArticleLasting Power of Attorney – live
Over the line The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG)’s lasting power of attorney digital service has just gone from beta to live. This is the first exemplar service to pass the Digital by Default...
View ArticleWeekend links: Choosing checklists, checking content, customer companies and...
Found a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter: @gdsteam Ever wondered what your social accounts would look like if they were Lego figures? Of course you have. (Image courtesy of Jeremy...
View ArticlePrinciples for prototyping
All our projects begin with discovery, a short phase in which we start researching the needs of users, understand the things we’ll need to measure to improve the service, and explore technology and...
View ArticleInteresting stuff from GOV.UK blogs
A couple of weeks ago, we updated the index page for all the blogs hosted on GOV.UK. To mark this, we thought it would be a good idea to highlight some of the interesting stuff that teams across...
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