You can find more information about service design on the dedicated Services in government blog.
The Government Digital Strategy says that all new or redesigned digital services will meet the Digital by Default Service Standard from April 2014. Before then, GDS is using the standard to support the Cabinet Office spending controls, to deepen knowledge of …
Rather than running our own room full of servers, or worrying too much about physical computers, we have chosen to run GOV.UK on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. What does that mean and why did we make that …
...if we share it. As ever we'd love to hear your feedback, specifically what you think is useful, and what you'd like to see included in further versions. You can...
...code from the off. Working with my colleagues, we have introduced this technique to the design process of GOV.UK in reaction to the rapid development cycles and number of iterations...
...the remote control for your life. We’re now seeing around 9% of visits to Directgov coming via a mobile device and we’ll see over 2 million visits to the mobile...
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