At the beginning of the year Neil Williams shared the 2016/17 roadmap for GOV.UK. I’ve just been appointed as GOV.UK’s Lead Product Manager and, as we’re into our second quarter now, I want to provide an update on our progress.
On the GOV.UK Finding Things team we are working on developing a ‘single subject taxonomy’ to improve navigation and search on GOV.UK. We decided to trial this approach with education content.
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 30 September 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
We’re now on our fourth content conference, and we learn each time we run them. For the first time, we had more presenters from outside GDS than inside GDS. That’s important because the content community is far broader than GDS. …
It’s been a while since we last blogged about how the GOV.UK content team is structured. Our 2015 post about changes to the content design team explained we created 4 teams in order to develop knowledge in a subject areas and …
We’ve been working to improve the way GOV.UK hosts marketing campaigns. I’m writing this blog post to explain how we are improving the current campaigns functionality by introducing a new campaigns platform.
Christine recently created a new course for HM Revenue and Custom's (HMRC's) content designers. The 2 teams in Newcastle and Manchester are well practised at writing content to user needs but wanted to look at the whole user journey. Julie: …
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 16 September 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Three or so years ago, GOV.UK had just 2 content reviewers checking content changes made by content designers and pressing the publish button.
We want to work better with other content designers across government working on GOV.UK, so we're inviting content designers from across government to come and work with us.
On 10 October, we’re hosting a government event at Aviation House in London to showcase the work that GOV.UK has been doing in the last quarter, and to show what’s coming up.
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