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Podcast: Maps in services

The GDS Team, 30 November 2021 - Accessibility, Digital Service Platforms, Podcast, Service design

Colleagues from the GOV.UK Design System and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs discuss how teams can help make maps in public services better.

Why we think online HTML forms are usually better than document-based forms in government

Iain Boyd - Engagement Lead for GOV.UK Forms, Government Digital Service, Harry Vos - Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK Forms, Government Digital Service and Hannah Cooper - Senior Content Designer for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 17 November 2021 - Content design, Transformation

From an initial comparison of different forms technologies, we believe more teams should be using online HTML forms.

Podcast: How our Site Reliability Engineers migrated GOV.UK Pay

The GDS Team, 28 October 2021 - Digital Service Platforms, Podcast, Transformation, Ways of working

Wondered how to migrate a 24/7 product to a serverless platform? We chat about initial user research, developing DevOps skills and the benefits of GDS's approach to this type of tech project.

We’ve created a new guide for content design recruitment

Jane van de Ban - Lead Content Designer for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 21 October 2021 - Content design, People and skills

GDS is a great place to be a content designer. We’ve written a recruitment guide to help you make your application.

Single sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha

Richard Walker - Senior Product Manager for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, 19 October 2021 - GOV.UK, GOV.UK One Login, Service design, User research

Find out what the team building government’s new single sign-on solution learnt about prototyping, inclusion, apps and more during its digital identity alpha.

Podcast: Collecting information from users

The GDS Team, 28 September 2021 - People and skills, Podcast, Service design, Transformation, User research, Ways of working

Struggle to collect information from your users? Hear from the GDS team that’s trying to make every form on GOV.UK accessible, easy to use and quick to process.

Working at GDS as a developer

Alex Wilson - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service and Kelvin Gan - Senior Developer and Tech Lead for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, 15 September 2021 - GDS team, People and skills, Ways of working

Coding, collaboration and community - find out what it’s like to be a developer at GDS.

How will the new single sign-on and a GOV.UK Account work together?

Cantlin Ashrowan - former Product Lead for Digital Identity, Government Digital Service, 8 September 2021 - GOV.UK, GOV.UK One Login, Service design

We explain how the single sign-on system and GOV.UK Account will work together.

Podcast: Digital identity - working with government services

The GDS Team, 25 August 2021 - GOV.UK One Login, Podcast, Service design

Helena Trippe and Will Myddleton share how the Digital Identity team works with colleagues in departments, like guest Tom Stewart from Veterans UK, to ensure users are getting the most out of services.

Podcast: Technologists at GDS

The GDS Team, 26 July 2021 - People and skills, Podcast, Technology

Himal Mandalia and Louise Ryan join Louise Harris on this month’s podcast to chat about the breadth and depth of what technologists do at GDS.

Blog: Government Digital Service

Transformation needs deliberately designed teams: here's how we're building them differently