Changing of the guard at GDS
It has been a interesting week or so for those of us working in digital government. First the Executive Director…
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Our Beta project is in full swing now and we are receiving a steady stream of feedback – all of…
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Post by James Bayliss, Digital Content Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how…
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On Monday we quietly removed the password from the ONS Beta website and made it public for the first time….
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There will be three environments: dev, staging and live. Deployment will be controlled by two main Git source control…
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Post from chart guru Zoe Hartland (@HartlandZoe) On 1st July the Digital Content team officially launched written guidance on Style.ONS…
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The Beta delivery team currently consists of; Product/Service Manager Associate Product Manager Delivery Manager Business Analyst User Researcher/Information Architect…
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All technology used on the Beta is open source and well supported. A ‘boring is better’ approach has been…
Read more on 6. Evaluate what tools and systems will be used to build, host, operate and measure the service, and how to procure them.13. Build a service consistent with the user experience of the rest of GOV.UK including using the design patterns and style guide.
The ONS website sits outside of the GOV.UK ‘brand’ and as such has design patterns and user experience requirements separate…
Read more on 13. Build a service consistent with the user experience of the rest of GOV.UK including using the design patterns and style guide.8. Make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences
All of our code is either based on existing open source libraries or is released itself under an open…
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