Digital
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Looking to the future at Festival of Code 2015
6th August 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Rui Cardoso, one of our Business Analysts On Thursday, as part of our efforts to establish relationships with Scotland’s digital community, I went along to the final day of this year’s Festival of Code 2015 in Edinburgh. The event was organised by Young Rewired State and is a week-long global hackathon – all aimed...
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Content Rally
4th August 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager It’s been a busy few weeks here in the mygov.scot team. One of my personal highlights of our recent work was the Content Rally where everyone, irrespective of discipline, took on the role of Content Designer. To explain more about the Content Rally here...
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Development process for “Hide this page now”
30th July 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager New feature – our “Hide this page now” button Today’s blog post gives a little bit of background about the latest feature to be added to our site. Recently we added the ability to quickly escape from certain sensitive pages on the site. This is...
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Team’s feedback on the first 100-day drive
6th July 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager We posted an update during our first 100-day drive to let people about how things were progressing. As we progress into the second 100-day drive, it seems like a good time to reflect on how people felt about both the approach and what we delivered over the period....
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When I went to visit GOVT.NZ
24th June 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Rachel Jane Patrick, our departing Digital Designer During March and April I was lucky enough to find myself in New Zealand visiting friends and family. I volunteered to go in and say hello to the team in New Zealand, who are working on similar website to our own, www.govt.nz. I was...
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5 tips for usability testing from Steve Krug
18th June 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Kate Saunderson, one of our user researchers. Is your website usable? That is the question that Steve Krug, author of ‘Don’t make me think’ and ‘Rocket surgery made easy’ continually asks. He wants others to ask as well, just as much as he does. So how should we answer that question and what...
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Our next 100 days: Out of Beta
12th June 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a blog post by Jose Casal-Gimenez, Programme Director for mygov.scot We have just completed our first 100-day drive – 100 days during which we focused on firming-up our beta release and getting good traction in our publishing flow. The 100-day format was so well-received internally that we have decided to continue with a second. This time...
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June Hackathon
4th June 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Alex Cunningham, our Communications Administrator Last week, the mygov.scot team embarked on another one of its infamous hackathons. The hugely successful two-day event included a lot of design, development and dedication, and (keeping with tradition) a lot of pizza! A few days before the hackathon team members started to jot down their ideas. On Thursday morning, like children rummaging through...
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What we’ve been working on: Friday 15th May Product Demo
15th May 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager Mark demoing the bulk editor Every second Friday the team comes together for a product demo, giving us an opportunity to sit down and talk about what’s in the latest release.
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Introducing a simple, helpful tool for decommissioning websites
11th May 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager Websites within the Scottish public sector portfolio that are out of date, duplicating information available elsewhere or are no longer maintained help sustain a poor experience for citizens. Through working with our partners, we are spotting candidates that display these poor attributes and are thus low hanging fruit...
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