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How sharing helps us improve digital services
How sharing helps us improve digital services
We spend a lot of time banging on about sharing. Sharing code, sharing design ideas, sharing everything so that others can benefit.
You can now renew a patent online
If you hold a UK or European (GB) patent, you can now renew it more quickly and easily using a simple online service.
Helping government find user needs with analytics
Over the last couple of months we’ve run search engine optimisation and analytics workshop sessions for content designers in government departments and agencies.
Our first video production workshop
We recently held our first ever video production workshop with a small group of participants from the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). The aim was to pass on what we’ve learned about making films in the last couple of …
Inspiring teenagers: getting schools to beat bogus websites
Recently, GDS took part in the Whitehall Schools Conference. The conference is for bright 12-13 year olds from underrepresented backgrounds, and shows them the career opportunities available to them in the Civil Service.
Thank you Stephen Kelly
Our boss Stephen Kelly, the Chief Operating Officer of HM Government, has announced today that he will be leaving government in a few months. He will go on to lead Sage plc as Group Chief Executive.
This is what transformation looks like
The winner was … a prototype of a quick and easy online service to let people pay fines using a simple reference number. With a working payment system, the prototype wouldn’t be far away from a releasable public beta. In …
A new digital hub on the Tyne
Good news from the north east: our colleagues at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have officially opened the Digital Delivery Centre Newcastle, a new headquarters for the HMRC Digital team.
GOV.UK – it’s all in the name
We’ve updated the guidance on naming and registering government domain names to make it faster, simpler and clearer to read through and decide whether you can apply for a gov.uk domain.
Doing the hard work to make things simple
Our fourth design principle is “Do the hard work to make it simple”. A team working at the Ministry of Justice have been putting that into action recently, trying to simplify a legal process known as “accelerated possession”, just one …
The unsung heroes of voter registration
Back in June, we launched the live phase of the new Register to vote digital service, number one on our list of transformation exemplars.