How does this look from outside the UK?
One of the problems that Alphagov is trying to solve is the confusion generated by the fragmented nature of the government’s digital offering. Who’s in charge of what? Those who...
Sketching our way to Alpha.gov.uk
We’ve talked about initial analysis, design rules and technology. Now we're taking those sketches to build something to satisfy them on Alpha.gov.uk.
A vision for online consultation and policy engagement
We discuss what government should do to consult, engage and involve people more openly in the work it does, online.
What was the evidence? Users’ information needs and analytics
We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.
Mike Bracken appointed as HMG Executive Director for Digital
...run one of the first official Government data hack days after the alpha launch of data.gov.uk and later hosting the site’s full launch at the Guardian in January 2010. Mike...
It's all about the nodes and what lives at them
To say that no-one wants to visit a government website is an over-simplification. But it's certainly true that the compulsion is significantly different from what drives people to a destination website like BBC News or Facebook, or from something customer-facing …
Agile does work in government
Just as there are trends in technology, there are fashions in project management and some feel that agile is poorly suited to government and is just a fad. One of the principle objectives for this project was to demonstrate that …
Sketching (and some features that didn't quite make it)
We share a few of the early sketches from the alpha.gov.uk project, some of which include features that we either dropped when we realised they would work or haven't got around to implementing yet.
A brief overview of technology behind Alpha.gov.uk
The team share an overview of the technology used to develop Alpha.gov.uk.
Broadly, the visual language of Alpha.gov.uk
Read about the colour and typography used for Alpha.gov.uk which is a demonstration of what a single central Government site could be.
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