Designing with data
Following the GDS service standard we wanted to make sure we were using data on the alpha prototype wherever possible to help…
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Posted by Jonathan Porton and Phillip Gardiner, the Alpha User Experience Team The discovery phase Like most web projects, our…
Read more on The research behind the alphaAn alpha agile approach
A guest post from our Business Analyst and world traveler Alison Sarioglu.. The boring definition: Agile is a iterative approach to…
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A guest post from David Carboni our Technology Lead and Movember survivor.. If you’re curious about the technology behind the…
Read more on Technology choices [Alpha]Content conundrum
Anyone familiar with the current ONS website, particularly if you have tried to use the search will be well aware…
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The words “Office for National Statistics” and “Homepage” have a dramatic effect on me in much the same way that…
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Guest post from Martin Coulthurst, chief chart-builder and map-maker for the Alpha project.. The Alpha website features interactive, responsive charts…
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Working on a project with a mix of in-house staff, individual contractors, an embedded team from an external supplier and…
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From the very start of this project one of the things we wanted to do is make the statistics themselves…
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I have recently been reading ‘How Google Works’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. It is an interesting book for…
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