It’s tempting to think that if only we allow users to explore our data, they’ll understand it better. Build an…
Read more on How can we use explorers to make better statistics, better decisions?I thought I’d share news of work the social media team have been helping coordinate over the past year. This…
Read more on A year in social: increasing traffic from our social media postsThe Digital Publishing technology stack – Part 2: Our backend systems In part one we looked at our hosting platform…
Read more on The Digital Publishing technology stack – Part 2: Our backend systemsIn Digital Publishing we use a lot of technologies – some are industry standard, others not so much. Since we…
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“Who wants to be a millionaire” is the name of a popular ITV quiz show being reintroduced to our screens…
Read more on Who wants to be a millionaire?My talk at Product People West & South 14 Nov 2018 Rob Chambers, Product manager, ONS website and APIs As…
Read more on Product People West & South: Product for APIs, what’s the difference?This year we’ve interviewed, hired and welcomed six new interaction and graphic designers to the Digital Publishing team at ONS…
Read more on Things we learnt when we hired six designers at the same timeFor the past 12 months or so, the search term “gender pay gap” has consistently been one of the most…
Read more on Helping users get what they need from ONS bulletinsWhat is a service? “A service is something that helps someone to do something.” – Lou Downe, Head of Design…
Read more on Why ONS needs to hire service designersMost users come to our site with a question, for which they believe some data is the answer. The best…
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