Stewart Hamilton
Written 180 posts
Communications and Engagement Officer
Scottish Government Design System Axure library update
23rd July 2024
Blog by Anusree Raju, Senior Interaction Designer, Digital Services Division, Digital Directorate The Scottish Government Design System (SGDS) team recently launched a new version of its Axure widget library (scottishgovernment_designsystem_v2.0.rplib). It contains new and updated components and patterns. An Axure library is a collection of pre-made components to use in your designs to save…
An introduction to the Digital Programme
17th July 2024
Blog by Paul Fagan, Head of Digital Programme This is part of series of blogs about the Digital Programme. Introduction Hello and a very warm welcome to the first in a series of blogs on the Digital Programme! For our first outing, we’re keen to give you an overview on why we need the programme,…
Technology Assurance Framework – what we learned from Major Digital Project Reviews in 2023-24
16th July 2024
Guest blog by Berit Braun, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver more successful projects and programmes This blog shares what we learned from the 30 major digital project reviews carried out…
Technology Assurance Framework – what we learned from Digital Scotland Service Standard Assessments in 2023-24
16th July 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office The Digital Assurance Office, who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver more successful projects and programmes. This blog shares what we learned from the 28 Digital Scotland Service Standard (DSSS) assessments…
Back to the Future: Building a vision for public sector data
11th July 2024
Guest blog post by Albert King, Chief Data Officer, NHS National Services Scotland. Earlier this year, The Scottish Government put out a call inviting people to come together to co-create a long-term vision for public sector data in Scotland. This is clearly something people care deeply about as we had a great response, from which,…
Leveraging new technologies to shape innovative engineering solutions
28th June 2024
Guest blog by Georgia Boura, Graduate Civil Engineer, Transport Scotland. As the national transport agency for Scotland, it’s essential for Transport Scotland to understand travel behaviour across the country. The traditional way to do this is through travel surveys, however collecting data in this way is time and cost intensive and therefore these cannot be…
Technology Assurance Framework – insights on resourcing and capability
25th June 2024
Guest blog by Berit Braun, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver effectively. This blog shares our insights on the improvements project teams had to make to ensure they had the…
National Entitlement Card smart ticketing – Meeting digital standards
30th May 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Some Scottish island citizens are entitled to concessionary ferry travel. The aim of the Ferries National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing project was to transform the existing service by moving from a manual paper based service to a digital and smartcard service. Context This…
National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing – Creating a multidisciplinary team
23rd May 2024
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Some Scottish island citizens are entitled to concessionary ferry travel. The aim of the Ferries National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing project was to transform the existing service by moving from a manual paper based service to a digital and smartcard service. New digital…
Scotland’s Digital Strategy – Progress report published
22nd May 2024
Blog post by Yorath Turner, Chief Operating Officer for Digital, Scottish Government. A progress report entitled ‘A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world: Progress report 2021 – 2024’ has been published on the Scottish Government website. Scotland’s Digital Strategy, “A changing nation: how Scotland will thrive in a digital world” was…