You can now renew a patent online
If you hold a UK or European (GB) patent, you can now renew it more quickly and easily using a simple online service. Here’s a very short film we’ve made about it: What was a cumbersome process of...
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How sharing helps us improve digital services
We spend a lot of time banging on about sharing. Sharing code, sharing design ideas, sharing everything so that others can benefit. Until quite recently this was a rare thing in government, but I’m...
View Article100 technical hires
Today we’re announcing that more than 100 digital and technology experts have been brought into government departments over the last 12 months to drive the digital transformation of public services....
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5 live – Civil Claims
On Wednesday Ministry of Justice (MoJ) Digital’s Civil Claims service removed its orange beta banner and became the latest exemplar to go live. It joins Electoral registration, Renew a patent, Student...
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Say the dot
Back in May, we wrote a short post explaining why we write the name of our website as GOV.UK, in capitals, and the URL as www.gov.uk, so that people know it’s a URL and know where to find it on the...
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Vertical campfires: our user research walls
A quick walk around our offices and you’ll see that vertical surfaces, whether wall or not, are both covered and coveted. Project paraphernalia are our wallpaper. Sticky notes, images, screenshots,...
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Service standard – how’s it going?
The digital by default service standard went fully live in April. That means that, in line with the Government Digital Strategy, all new and redesigned public facing services have to meet this...
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Please release me: building a new statistical release calendar
Image courtesy of Simon Cunningham under a Creative Commons license. Sam Hall is Head of Publishing Operations at the Office for National Statistics. Statistics may be defined as “a body of methods for...
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Time for tea: the EE Techy Tea Party
Yesterday mobile network operator EE, in partnership with Age UK, held the first ever Techy Tea Party day to promote digital inclusion. EE staff held free sessions in over 500 stores all around the...
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You can now book a prison visit online
Booking a prison visit should be simple and straightforward. Until now that was far from the case. Booking a visit required both prisoner and visitor to jump through hoops: paper forms and drawn-out...
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