Digital Marketplace: building a digital by default service
Digital Marketplace: building a digital by default service
The Digital Marketplace helps government find and compare cloud services for their technology projects.
The Digital Marketplace helps government find and compare cloud services for their technology projects.
One question we’ve been asked a few times is: “What does your film production team look like? How can our department/agency/organisation build a team like that too?”
As a copywriter who’s written online content for the likes of BBC, Yahoo and Nokia, I have always thought about how the text appears on web pages. I think the way it looks is almost as important as the words …
If you’re interested in our work, don’t forget that GDS has 14 blogs including this, the main one.
Our eighth design principle is build digital services, not websites. “Our service doesn’t begin and end at our website. It might start with a search engine and end at the post office.”
As we announced in August, it’s now possible to make an accelerated property possession online.
I am one of the trainers here at Government Digital Service and I work alongside Brij Thakrar. Our role is to train people in departments and agencies how to write and publish to GOV.UK.
We know that owning a gov.uk domain address tells users that we can be trusted, and we’re proud of this message – it is an important part of building trust and reducing the potential for people to use misleading websites …
GOV.UK is 2 years and 1 billion visits old today. So we’re celebrating. But it’s worth remembering that we couldn’t have got this far without a great deal of support from others.
“Do less” is one of our design principles. Visiting the Environment Agency in Bristol, it struck me that sometimes one of the best things departments can do to support digital transformation is to let the really talented people get on …
Over the last year or so, we’ve been working on moving the websites of 311 government agencies and arms length bodies onto GOV.UK, as part of the transition towards a single online platform for all government services.