Government Digital Service Design Principles
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#2"while it’s right we should provide information about VAT it’s not necessary for us to provide information about keeping bees http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121015000000/www... "
LOL, I've heard some bad stuff about the OneGov team, but this is great.
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#3Previous discussion:
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#4Related link about some of the technologies used on gov.uk.
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#5Been exploring the gov.uk site, and I'm very very impressed. Unlike the Manchester.gov site[1], there's an excellent information density yet a very lightweight feel. Maybe it's my preference for text-based designs over icon-based ones, but I feel like I can find what I need incredibly quickly.
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#6Awesome stuff which makes me sad: Here in Germany OpenData and Open Government is really bad.
The government started an initiative, later backed out in nearly every aspect of "openness" and hired some Fraunhofer FOKUS people (federal research institute) do code something.
They used a huge JEE app-server as foundation for their work, have not a single test and neither a documentation. When they launched a couple of months ago, their production server went down for 2 days besides their research in "cloud computing" which does Fraunhofer as well. (=> https://govdata.de sources at https://github.com/fraunhoferfokus/opendata-platform)
So, congrats to UK. You're doing it right. Please continue this work and put more stress on incompetent and lazy political actors and "research factories" in other countries, e.g. Germany.
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#7What.. Are these government sites? Those do not look like such as they are too clean and positive. Are you sure they're just not a victim of very stylish hacker?
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#8It's nice to see a government organisation actually taking design seriously for once. I imagine (having never worked in that kind of environment) that stuff like design committees and massive processes to get small tweaks through can't be that nice.
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#9This gov.uk work is good, real good. Consistent layout, and good search which is most important.
Thoroughly good digital service, especially like the API for sharing content.
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#10Been exploring the gov.uk site, and I'm very very impressed. Unlike the Manchester.gov site[1], there's an excellent information density yet a very lightweight feel. Maybe it's my preference for text-based designs over icon-based ones, but I feel like I can find what I need incredibly quickly. [1] http://www.manchester.gov.uk
The Manchester site's still pretty decent though. Unlike http://cardiff.gov.uk.