#gds (17 links)
- Mark Hurrell – GOV.UK visual identity and brand mhurrell.co.uk
- What next for digital government and Government as a Platform? martinlugton.com
GDS is thinking about its strategy for 2025-30. I’m Head of Product in the Digital Service Platforms part of GDS - you might have previously known it as…
I really enjoy these strategy documents.
- On being lost medium.com
- The rise and fall of GDS: lessons for digital government – Global Government Forum globalgovernmentforum.com
- A living style guide for GOV.UK | Technology at GDS gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk
<blockquote>The most important thing for our components is the documentation. This defines the interface that applications can call the component with. It contains a set of fixtures to demonstrate how an application might call the component.</blockquote>
- Releasing applications to GOV.UK | Technology at GDS gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk
- Product Management: priorities and people | Student finance digital studentfinancedigital.blog.gov.uk
So, what exactly is a Product Manager?
- What’s the design process at GDS? | Government Digital Service gds.blog.gov.uk
<blockquote>We don’t want a culture of designs being “thrown over a wall” to a dev team. We don’t make “high fidelity mock ups” or “high fidelity wireframes”. We’re making a Thing, not pictures of a Thing.</blockquote>
- GOV.UK elements govuk-elements.herokuapp.com
<blockquote>This guide explains how to make your service look consistent with the rest of GOV.UK.</blockquote>
- Russell Davies: Consumers, users, people, mammals russelldavies.typepad.com
<blockquote>Public servants can't pivot to a new problem or a new set of users. They have to solve the problem that's in front of them, and, probably, they'll have to keep solving it for years. That's something that the 'civic tech' community is going to have to face.</blockquote>
- Two new design guides | GDS design notes designnotes.blog.gov.uk
- activities not audiences russelldavies.typepad.com
<blockquote>The whole point of 'digital', the very opportunity of it, is that you don't have to segment people like this. They segement themselves by looking for the thing they want to do.
If your primary focus is on user needs then your task is simple - work out the specific thing people are trying to do and then make it as simple and quick for them as possible. Your design, your engineering, your research, your testing are all then focused on making that one thing work.</blockquote>
- a unit of delivery russelldavies.typepad.com
<blockquote>I met an old advertising friend the other day and he said, so what is GDS? So I thought I should try and explain.</blockquote>
- We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all. | Government Digital Service digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
<blockquote>For government services, we believe the costs of developing and maintaining apps will very rarely justify their benefits, especially if the underlying service design is sub-optimal.
Departments should focus on improving the quality of the core web service.</blockquote>