Improving forms with new radios and checkboxes
Over the last year on GOV.UK, we’ve been looking for ways to make our forms easier to use by improving the checkboxes and radio buttons that people need to click on.
How we represent data when developing APIs
At GDS, “make things open,” is something you hear on a daily basis. In my new role as the GDS Open Standards Lead, I’m helping to make sure we do this, ensuring we choose the best open standards, and promote …
Completing our work to secure digital services
In June we blogged about work we were doing to update our security guidelines for government digital services. Since then we've been busy working with teams across government to update services ready for the changes. Thank you to the teams …
A mini conference for technical writers on agile documentation
We have a growing community of technical writers in government focused on writing documentation and guidance for technologists. Next week we’ll be holding our second mini conference this year on how to write documentation in an agile environment. The event …
Behind the scenes of GOV.UK Verify: improving users’ security
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GOV.UK Verify
At GOV.UK Verify we take users’ security very seriously. Online security is constantly changing, and we need to be up to date at all times. We regularly update the service’s frontend to ensure it’s running the most secure and recent …
Holding our next cross-government StackTech
Back in 2014 we held an unconference aimed at creating a conversation between technologists across government. The event, dubbed StackTech, turned out to be a big success and led to discussions still going on today, like how to improve reuse …
Our approach to API authentication
We’ve recently written a number of blog posts on APIs covering the basic areas like making use of HTTP, URIs, JSON and CSV, as well as on the topic of more complex subjects like how to iterate. There are further …
Writing documentation for developers
You may have heard, rule number one for us at Government Digital Service (GDS) is: “always start with user needs”. We do user research. Lots of it. GOV.UK Verify recently completed their 100th round of user research, and they’re not …
Gaining understanding of the browsers people use
GOV.UK gets a lot of visits from people in the UK and further afield. We keep a record of all visits and use this data to support as many users as possible. Deciding which browsers to test We’ll try to …
Using containers to help develop GOV.UK Pay
We’ve recently begun using container tools on GOV.UK Pay to help us run the platform locally and make development less resource heavy. GOV.UK Pay consists of several interacting microservices: a citizen front end, a government service admin interface, a public …
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