...output. Designing such a system for GOV.UK required considering a number of different problem areas to find the best trade-offs for GOV.UK itself, for GDS, and for similar projects within...
...do not recommend testing with non-working elements. Efficient testing, happens when a thin, horizontal slice through the interaction is prioritised for one user group (e.g. searching for local schools for...
...code will lead to other services learning how to expose similar functionality in that manner. It should also provide working code for ideas that could potentially be taken to the...
...have been interested in data science for a long time. When I started to work for HM Land Registry (HMLR), my colleagues saw my long-term enthusiasm for data science and...
...to different things being reported on, in different formats, and typically for White/Other, or simply a series of figures for the combined minority ethnic groups. Email me or leave a...
...free text response, for example: 'Why did you visit GOV.UK today?', 'Did you find what you were looking for?', and 'Where did you go for help?'. We receive around 3,000...
...whether this works best as one long page (as it is currently) or split into individual questions (see www.gov.uk/register-to-vote). The team should consider their choice of form fields carefully. For...
...to be done on the end-to-end user journey for users who don’t have digital skills or access, for example, considering how email approvals and confirmations will be handled. The providers...
...or other data collections * is appropriate for some survey methods – for example, a paper survey might have limited space for ethnicity categories This need for concise lists will...
...off the grid (untick View > Gridlines), and shade alternate rows using conditional formatting with a custom formula: ‘=ISODD(ROW())’ or ‘=ISEVEN(ROW())’. Shading alternate rows with conditional formatting To add the...
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