Digital
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Last update for 2016 and the end our 60 day delivery cycle
21st December 2016 by Jono Ellis
We’re almost at the end of the year and have just reached the end of our 60-day drive. It seems a good time to update you on all that we’ve been working on. Firstly, we’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to the great progress made by mygov.scot, beta.gov.scot and Rubric over 2016. We...
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Accessibility
20th December 2016 by Jono Ellis
This is a blog post by Scott Langley, our senior user experience designer. We often get asked about our approach to accessibility so I’d thought I’d share a little on how we go about trying to make all our digital products as accessible as possible. Accessible digital products benefit everyone Accessibility is an important area...
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Pair writing content with subject matter experts
25th November 2016 by admin
This is a blog post by Reece Cargan, senior content designer on mygov.scot During our work writing content for mygov.scot, the content team use a mixture of different writing methods as part of our content design process. One technique is ‘pair writing’. We have blogged in the past about designing content for mygov.scot, and explained...
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Digital First Service Standard – Call for Assessors
18th November 2016 by Stewart Hamilton
Over the last couple of months the Scottish Government’s Digital First Team have been developing and refining the assessment process for the Digital First Service Standard. The standard is a set of 22 criteria which all future central government digital public services and internal Scottish Government corporate systems will have to meet in order to go...
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How we wrote about Female Genital Mutilation
3rd November 2016 by Jono Ellis
This is a blog post by Harry Dozier, one of our content designers. This blog post goes into the background behind the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) article which was recently added to the mygov.scot site. The mygov.scot content team frequently deal with challenging topics – such as where to get help if you are the...
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Learning from Estonia
3rd October 2016 by
What do you see when you think of Estonia? Do you think of the 1996 World Cup qualifier in Tallinn when Scotland were the only team on the pitch?. Do you think of one of the least densely populated countries in Europe? Do you think of one of the most digitally enabled countries in the...
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Improving our guide page navigation
15th September 2016 by Jono Ellis
This is a blog post by Chay Nicholson, creative lead on the MyGov programme. In our latest release of the mygov.scot site you might have noticed our guides look a little different. We have changed the way navigation is displayed on guide pages following a recent round of user testing. We felt that the links to...
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Supporting Scottish business owners after the EU Referendum
25th August 2016 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Laurna Robertson, one of our content designers. The EU Referendum result means businesses across the UK face an uncertain future. The Scottish Government business policy team wanted to deal with this uncertainty swiftly. Following discussions with the Federation of Small Businesses, it was clear that offering up-to-date information and support...
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What we’ve been up to
31st May 2016 by Jono Ellis
It’s been a while since we last provided an update on what’s been going on in MyGov, which was down to the small matter of the Scottish parliamentary elections. While the blog may have been quieter than usual, the MyGov team have been working as hard as ever. What we’ve been doing (January – May...
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New start to focus on digital participation in social housing
27th May 2016 by Scott McLear
The Digital Participation team has been working with Housing Associations to improve digital participation among social housing tenants. Recently they have engaged a Digital Consultant through the Digital Transformation Service to provide specific support and assistance for the sector. Doug Melville has come from working with the Australian Government in their Digital Transformation, most recently...
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