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.All of our code is either based on existing open source libraries or is released itself under an open…
Read more on 8. Make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licencesThe team works according to agile methods without being slavish to a particular methodology. We tend to talk about small…
Read more on 4. Build the service using the agile, iterative and user-centred methods set out in the manualIn the spirit of the tenth GDS design principle I am planning to share a series of blogposts over…
Read more on Open approach to Service AssessmentThis is a presentation I have been giving internally as a status update for the ONS Beta website project and…
Read more on Beta project updateOne of the more unusual challenges we wanted to tackle on the alpha and now as we move towards the beta is…
Read more on Explaining what you don’t do?…and we’re back. Sorry for the radio silence but now the election is over we can return to our policy…
Read more on [sprintnote] Catchup.78 Days later. Yesterday we completed our sprint zero for the Beta project. Once again we have a team from…
Read more on [sprintnote] zeroThe ONS Alpha project has now officially drawn to a close after the successful passing of our voluntary GDS Service…
Read more on Becoming Beta