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In May last year, alpha.gov.uk emerged blinking into the limelight. It was the product of a true skunkworks operation – a few guys (and they were mainly guys) – tucked away on a disused floor of a government building in south London. The site had rough edges, but it pointed in an exciting direction: Satisfy…

As someone on the fringes of the Single Domain project (AKA Alphagov), conversations in recent months have often turned to the ‘global experience language’ in development, as in: “well, X will need to fit with the GEL…” The GEL is the vision which will guide the user interface to the site including the layout, iconography,…

So Mike Bracken, former digital boss at Guardian Media Group is the new Executive Director for Digital for the UK government. Welcome, Mike. In times as tough as these for the public sector, it’s a real coup to have recruited someone of your calibre to the role. The post was recommended by Martha Lane Fox…

So recently I blogged the first part of my charge-sheet against the (otherwise jolly decent) alpha.gov.uk. Here’s where they really boobed… 😉 6. UX of a website is nice, but that’s 5% of the problem It’s great that a team of (largely) government outsiders have taken a long, hard look at top tasks and search…

People have been very nice about Alpha.gov.uk, the new prototype of the single domain for government since its launch last week. Simon Dickson, a man who pulls few punches, highlighted ten things Alphagov gets right. I agree with all of them, and having seen glimpses of the project as it developed, it’s a remarkable, important…