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Maybe I missed it, but I was surprised there was no mention of passwords. Mandatory password composition rules (excluding minimum length) and rotating passwords as well as all atte…

The identity side has allways been a problem (P)politically and technically. I think the original GDS was completely correct in basically forcing services not to have them, they ar…

I'm genuinely curious if people still think gov.uk is a good example - or I guess, as good as it was. I'm slightly biased from past experience but my feeling is a lot of the critic…

Not quite web 1.0 but I do wonder if there's a market for services that are closer to early web 2.0 products. For example something closer to Facebook circa 2006. No infinite scrol…

So, does anyone have a recommended alternative for a mail provider with support for custom domain names? Like a lot of people this is literally the only reason I have a legacy work…

Unfortunately, lots has changed GDS itself is now 2 or 3 times the size and each department employs their own teams of DDAT experts. GDS is just another government bureaucracy at t…

Sir Francis Maude and the team he had around him untill about 2016. I don't have the links to hand but there was some really great thinking going into what it meant to provide gove…

There isn't actually anything close to a standard user account for gov.uk Again one of the original goals was that services shouldn't require a persistent account. Unfortunately th…

GDS used to recommend matomo, especially for services with 'sensitive' content (each service on gov.uk is actually developed, hosted and deployed separately). I know the foreign of…

GDS have done some excellent work in the past, especially around usability and design. Unfortunately since the various senior leaders have left and it's moved further into governme…

Does anyone know of good locations to find short-term (3 - 4 month) contracts for web developers (PHP/but happy to learn other languages)? I've been working as a Product Manager / …

You could use instead (which I probably would). Jest tested it using dev tools, seems to work.

This, although I would call it the 'enterprise' model. This is how teams in the UK Gov are structured (infact we have more roles [52 at last count]) and its horrible. Aside from th…

I think some of the comments so far here and in the artice might be missing the point - not helped by the use of word UX or the common interpreation as meaning UI. I think the auth…

Conversely I've worked with lots of designers who also suck at UX. I think the first paragraph nails it. The people who are good at UX are the people who have the benefit of testin…

Does anyone have a good set of generic risks for new software projects? One of the things I find difficult about managing software projects is resk managment and enabling teams and…

I can definately understand the desire to have a USB-A port, its probably still the most common connector for keyboards, mice, external drives etc. HDMI would also be nice to suppo…

How have you implemented the heatmaps and screen recording - looks like magic

"Can't is the won't of the people who don't" remember getting told this as a kid by my mum or grandma. Didn't seem to stick though...

I find the difficult thing with this advise is that people always want to skip step 1. From my experiance once you introduce the principle of refactoring repeated code into functio…

What are your tips or advice for creating product documentation which is useful over the long term. Specifically I'm thinking of something which is well structred and can be used b…