Year: 2015
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Digital services – doing the hard work for you.
One of the more ambitious design principles of the the Government Digital service is number four: Do the hard work to make it simple. But it’s not all about digitising complex processes, it’s often about the little things that make a difference, like this little calculation at the bottom of a restaurant bill, noticed by Ben…
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Presenting practical presentations
“Death by powerpoint” is a phrase I’ve heard from someone at some point wherever I’ve worked. Hopefully if you work at GDS, or spend a lot of time attending events where someone from GDS is presenting this isn’t the case. Here’s Russell Davies explaining why: Doing the hard work to make it big and Doing the hard work…
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Government digital services as a platform. Yes please.
Yes to all of this: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/03/29/government-as-a-platform-the-next-phase-of-digital-transformation/ [youtube]https://youtu.be/ZzPU6Pdw05s[/youtube] And this needs to be just the start for the public sector.