By: Pete Clark
This seems like a vast improvement on any existing site. I would be interested to know what if any user testing has or will be carried out for disabled groups. I am impressed with the decision to show...
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In reply to Iain Dewar. @Iain Dewar - you don't agree with some of my 'assumptions' about the difficulty, yet you leap to the assumption that I'm a supplier making a pitch. Actually, they're not...
View ArticleBy: Lisa Goll
Simple, sensible and effective. As someone who's originally from outside the UK this is a genius way to quickly, simply and easily find the correct information without spending years looking for the...
View ArticleBy: Edward Ocampo-Gooding
This is awesome! Thanks for putting this together – I’ll be prodding some people in Ottawa to see if we can get something similar going on…
View ArticleBy: David P
In reply to Alison S. Completely agree with Alison's conclusions. I don't currently see where this site fits in to the current landscape of Govt' sites, and think resources would be better spent on...
View ArticleBy: Fats Brannigan
Well done! It's amazing what you can achieve when you're not constrained by having to ask customers what they want, or by what is feasible to provide.
View ArticleBy: Tony McMahon
For two years I created short videos for HM Treasury's YouTube channel following Alistair Darling to schools, farms, G20, Mansion House dinner, you name it. I wondered if there are plans to populate...
View ArticleBy: M
I have to admit being initially skeptical after reading about alpha.gov.uk on The Register, and given the background of previous government projects, but it seems the designers here have a good...
View ArticleBy: David Grant
I'm not aware that converging government websites on to Directgov saved any money - the only savings I'm aware of were in terms of web hosting, but these were offset by the increased levels of...
View ArticleBy: Mike Barwise
Alpha.gov - potentially an excellent idea - emerges as a typical bloated, technically complex script-ridden site. Only a reckless fool or someone with zero understanding of security would browse with...
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