Transformation

Improving our in-house rotas

Toby Lorne, 25 October 2018 - Open Source, Tools, Transformation

At the Government Digital Service we've stopped using spreadsheets and software-as-a-service tools to manage our rotas and built our own app. We've open sourced the code, so you can use it too.

Making GOV.UK pages load faster and use less data

Matt Hobbs, Head of Frontend Development, GDS, 4 October 2018 - Transformation

We changed the way fonts load on GOV.UK to speed up loading times on old devices with slow connection speeds.

How we designed and built a new network for our office move

Mohamed Hamid, 12 September 2018 - Transformation

Find out how our IT team built our internal network when we moved to our Whitechapel office.

Our approach to updating Open Standards

The Open Standards team, 7 September 2018 - Transformation

Why we keep track of Open Standards using static versioning instead of automatically updating them.

Demonstrating the benefits of AI in government with the Rubik’s Cube

Terence Eden, 28 August 2018 - Transformation

The world record for solving a scrambled Rubik's cube is 4.22 seconds. But what can this teach us about using AI in government?

Get advice to help solve technology challenges at our monthly drop-in clinic

Seyed Razavi and Tom March, GDS Lead Technology Advisor, 22 August 2018 - Transformation

We held our first Consulting Technical Architects (CTA) drop-in at the GDS offices in Whitechapel at the start August. The half-day session was attended by technologists from a range of government departments and we plan to run this drop-in clinic …