Use the right tools
Matt Gemmell writes about the tools to facilitate his writing. These tools have been selected to meet the specific needs for the three phases of his writing process […]
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User centred design, the GDS way.
I was recently in Brighton where the city council hosted a Government Digital Service session on user centered design. Here are things I found most interesting.
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New guy
There’s a new guy where I work, he’s been here a month now. After 7 incredible, fun and fulfilling years at @gdsteam I'm leaving to become Chief Digital […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
Read morePlain English for international readers
The team developing the visit visa service at gov.uk recently blogged about some testing with international users over a screencast which gave them some great insights from the kind […]
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