Government Digital Service
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Also known as: GDS, GOV.UK
- Just the Links … He's worked on communications and digital strategies for organisations like Honda, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, the Government Digital Service and the Co-op. He's currently Marketing and …
- The Irritating Aspect of Spiciness; Improving Pharmacies Somewhat … He's worked on communications and digital strategies for organisations like Honda, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, the Government Digital Service and the Co-op. He's currently Marketing and …
- A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World … and Trade, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Government Digital Service. Friday, 9am to 10:30am PT, on Zoom. Unlike the Hallway Track series …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … The work (I'm sorry, but it's pretty much inevitable I'm going to make this reference at this point) that GDS are doing isn't New …
- s11hiatus04/05: Stages of Transformation, and Not Trying is a Signal … the work of GDS in the UK), and then for some reason a good digital user experience isn't produced (see: care.data opt-out), then suspicion as …
- Even Shorter Bullet Points … is waking up to the complexities of sign-on and identity in government services, the U.K.'s Government Digital Service is moving ahead with private beta partners …
- Only A Few Esoteric Things … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention Dogma Cantlin, who's consulting at GDS pointed out that the initial strategy of making teams/programs go through a …
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start? … we use another definition, this time of "digital" from public.digital/U.K. GDS' Tom Loosemore, we have: Definition of Digital: Applying the culture, processes, business models and …
- Back on the wagon
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … to work at the BBC, and I missed the boat on working at GDS. And then I’d throw myself on a hand grenade and start working for …
- For the people, by the people … The passenger name record in travel GDS systems is very old and doesn’t really handle a name ending with the letters “MR” or “MRS”; this Stack Exchange …
- Very Little Gravitas … I had many years ago with a friend at the UK’s Government Digital Service (TWO! TWO EPISODES IN AND I’VE ALREADY MENTIONED GDS) who was working …
- The Reboot's Cold Open … post-apocalyptic world. * There's a really nice conversation over on the UK GDS Design System... repo? about the design of task lists . I'm just going to …
- So, What'd I Miss? … can see some sort of association with things like the UK's Government Digital Service and its related offspring, the United States Digital Service and now things that …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … about what worked and what didn't work at the UK's Government Digital Service. If you're at the Code for America Summit in Oakland Wednesday 2 …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … Digital Service and 18F, the UK's Government Digital Service and Australia's Digital Transformation Office. All of this is a long-winded explanation as to why I …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … This is all just bullshit. [0] What we mean by service design | Government Digital Service [1] A neoliberal case for a basic income, or something like it — Adam …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … I was super jealous of all my friends at the UK's Government Digital Service and all the good work they were doing Now, all of this has …
- Shockwave; The Top Priorities; Engagement; A Hostile Environment … with the "meet user needs" memeplex as recently and forcefully delivered by the GDS lot, none of the things in the priority list feel particularly important compared to …
- What Twitter Should Do; CXO vs CUO; Shilling … You probably want to listen to them talk about the UK’s Government Digital Service, how Buzzfeed, NPR and Lynda do design and some new startup called Slack …
- What You'll Reap; Foo Thoughts; The Next Generation … There's a pretty good summation of at least the big parts of how I feel about this over here[1]. [0] Onwards! | Government Digital Service [1] Thank …
- On Advertising. Again. … Which is where I sheepishly just point back to Russell Davies' 2013(!) tantalising teaser that one of the implications of what's been achieved by the Government Digital …
- Unblocking
- Everything
- Any Old Iron … getting started with Code for America meant regular short trips down to San Francisco and a team visit to Aviation House to spend some time with the Government …
- When Things Listen; An Unproductive Argument; Process; Until It Turns Into Writing … the human resources assigned to it." When I took my team to visit GDS at the end of last year, one of the things we came away with …
- Translation; Drift; The Thing About Things … Or, rather it makes sense in terms of *what GDS is trying to do*. The thing is, of course, that what GDS is trying to do isn't …
- Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review … a Code for America "expedition" to go visit the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service, so there was that going for the trip. One thing that stuck out …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … St-Paul, leading a Code for America expedition to the UK's Government Digital Service. I'll be meeting up in London with five of my colleagues trying …
- Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government … are modeled, in some ways, on the success that the UK's Government Digital Service has had. (You can see the practically seminal effect that GDS has had …
- The Thing About Brand Advertising … are among the biggest brand advertisers." This sort of thinking is pretty much in opposition to what the LSU and GDS folks are espousing (and the smart people …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … The work (I'm sorry, but it's pretty much inevitable I'm going to make this reference at this point) that GDS are doing isn't New …
- We Will Sell it To You Wholesale … e-government that works and is usable by the whole population is something that the UK's Government Digital Service is trying to do (and there's me …
- Depth, Not Breadth … This is part of the reason as to why organisations like GDS decide to implement internal design and build capability, because some things are strategic to the success …
- Names; The Condition … How Ebola Spread Out Of Control - The Washington Post Failing the GDS Service Assessment - "The team is planning to achieve [a simple and intuitive enough system that users …
- Thinking In Public; Writing In Public 0.0 Sitrep 10:03am just after the beginning of Frances Berriman's talk about the Government Digital Service Design Principles at the Code for America Summit, thinking …
- Continued Careening … I obviously incredibly admire the work that friends and strangers have done, and continue to do at the UK's Government Digital Service. And I've written about …
- How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps … It sometimes appears like this on the outside when peering over the GDS fence, where it's ostensibly *everyone's* duty to care about the user experience, because …
- Unicorns; Six Minus … because apparently if you write for long enough about stuff like the Government Digital Service people ask you to justify your reckons. If you'd like to say …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … And yes, some of this is because I've been infected by the Cult of the Government Digital Service, but it just felt like the three core issues …
- Sketchy; Don't Call It Sharing; Walking Sensors, Contd.; 2014 (3) … Washington Post[2], the chief executive of the US version of the Government Digital Service, newly launched as the U.S. Digital Service, places great stock in the …
- Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014 … as opposed to the internal network, and from what I can see on GDS blog comments every now and then, things haven't improved much in the more …
- Only 10%; This Hasn't Benefitted Ordinary Lives As Such … and the right time can do through an example like the UK Government Digital Service, it felt like something that might be interesting. I got through to the …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … tellingly, 4IP was run by Tom Loosemoore, now at the UK's Government Digital Service). Mapumental created travel time maps: it showed you, for any given destination, all …
- The Only Medium; Watching You; Smart Cities … And I swear to god I didn't intend this to be a sort of Oh Look Now You're Talking About GDS again, but the type of …
- Solving The Problem … I think there's a strong example of this at GDS (yet again!) in this post, "What we mean when we say 'service transformation'"[1]. You should go …
- Bridj Laziness; Deciding In Public; Terrible Tools … 3.0 Terrible Tools I think this is a short bit, but the UK's Government Digital Service has written Yet Another blog post, this time about building …
- Clarity; The Customer … There's a clarity in the work of the Government Digital Service where they're able to tape a sign to the window and say "these are our …
- Taking Stock; And The New … This particular thread developed out of watching pretty much all of my friends in the UK get sucked into the Government Digital Service and its excellent work in …
- Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next … So all the things like better tax returns, notifications, licensing, would all be done and that the GDS team will have produced a base level of government services …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … I'm paraphrasing the work of my friends over at the UK's GDS, is by showing it. And yes, Bud: I'd love to grab that coffee …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … I'd point to a few examples (you can take it as read that I consider the work of the UK's Government Digital Service as actually solving …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … It would be unlike me to talk about something like digital transformation of a business without mentioning, again, the work of the Government Digital Service in the UK …
- Yet More VR; TV is still fucked; Vox.com; Ugh … It even looks to be espousing the writing-for-the-web design principles as held up by current standard-bearers the UK Government Digital Service (of which: read …
- OK Google, Initiate Singularity; Random … I continue to receive well-meaning notes from a variety of people as to the true civil or non-civil service nature of the UK's Government Digital …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … the UK's Government Digital Service. I don't think it's a coincidence that from the outside two of the people (but certainly by no means the …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … 2.0 But What Is The User Need? There is a window, at the offices of the Government Digital Service, in London, where someone has taped a form …
- Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion … Here's where I tie things, inevitably, to yet another GDS comparison: the unit of delivery is the team. Kessler's like and their go-get them attitude …
- An Alternative; Washing; Users … I feel a bit guilty and self-conscious about pointing toward the UK's Government Digital Service because a) I know some of them and b) they keep …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … cult fashion from standouts in the field like Innocent and Flickr) and (again) GDS in maintaining that Writing Is Design, if we're talking about conversational interfaces (ha …
- Not Trying Is A Signal, Peak Game, EasyHard, SnapChat … the work of GDS in the UK), and then for some reason a good digital user experience isn't produced (see: care.data opt-out), then suspicion as …
- Some Thoughts On The Illustrated Primer, Fax Your GP … Where the UK's GDS is doing stellar work in bringing to life public services in a useful and accessible way, it's a crying shame that volunteers …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … And I suppose that's been one of the things that I've been noticing, sometimes jealously, from afar at what the UK's Government Digital Service has …
- We Build Worlds … All this goes to show what knowing your audience is (and why investment in something like GDS makes sense - when you're building something for all of the …