Sharing knowledge at the GDS chatbot and webchat event
Over 30 people from across government attended Government Digital Service’s chatbot and webchat event to discuss user journeys, development and service design, test services and network.
GOV.UK
Add your API to the cross-government catalogue
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Rosalie Marshall, GDS, Lead Technology Advisor, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Open Source, Open Standards, Tools
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has created an API catalogue on GitHub to increase transparency across government, start conversations and improve data sharing.
Relaunching the .gov.uk domain name application process
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Khidr Suleman, GDS Technical Writer, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, News, Transformation
The .gov.uk domain name application guidance is the first piece of government technology content to use the new step-by-step pattern. Here’s how we made it happen and the benefits of displaying the content in this way for users.
What I like about being a developer at GDS
From new development processes to cultural practices, Chris gives the lowdown on how developing at GDS is different from other organisations.
Start taking payments in one day with GOV.UK Pay
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Till Wirth, GDS Service Manager, Katie Bates, GDS Senior Product Manager and Lewis Dunne, GDS Tech Writer, Posted on:
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Categories:
GOV.UK, Transformation
GDS has made it easier for small public sector organisations to set up and use GOV.UK Pay. Previously, it could take some organisations up to 6 months before they could take payments through GOV.UK Pay. Now users can get set up and take payments from citizens on the same day.
The benefits of continuous deployment on Find a job
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Barry Traish, DWP, Lead Agile Digital Delivery Manager for Find a job, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Jobs, Transformation
By making the switch to continuous deployment on one of the government’s busiest services, DWP has reduced downtime on Find a job and released updates faster to provide benefits to users.
Making GOV.UK Pay available in Welsh
GOV.UK Pay now offers the ability to show users pages in Welsh. We take a look at the technical details and how this will help us add more language support in the future.
The benefits of migrating GOV.UK Pay’s codebase to the GOV.UK Design System
The GOV.UK Pay team has made significant performance improvements by using the GOV.UK Design System. Find out what our migration process was like and how your service can benefit too.
Sticky elements: functionality and accessibility testing
In GOV.UK's Modelling Services team we looked at the possibility of using sticky functionality as part of our work with step by step navigation elements. Here’s what we found.
Scaling GOV.UK Notify to send 500 million messages a year
Our colleagues in the GOV.UK Email team send out notification emails to around 750,000 GOV.UK users who have signed up for alerts about significant content changes.
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