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Releasing all the things: a good day for the Performance Platform
Yesterday we released 83 dashboards. We wouldn’t normally plan to release like this. We like to do little and often. However, on this occasion, we have a new overview dashboard which we’ve released for...
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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...
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Weekend 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...
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Reading 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...
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Open 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...
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Weekend 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...
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Trying 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...
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Weekend 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...
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Principles 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 ArticleYou 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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