Digital
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One Digital – creating digital champions across the Third Sector
18th February 2016 by Beth Murphy
This is a guest post by Beth Murphy, One Digital Project Manager, SCVO On Thursday 11th February we launched One Digital – a new project funded by The Big Lottery Fund and led by SCVO to support people from across society who struggle with Basic Digital Skills. We know that 72% people who lack basic...
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Social Housing – “Connecting the Unconnected”
12th February 2016 by Fraser Reid
Getting online has never been more important. Being able to access the internet can open up a whole world of opportunities. Many of us take it for granted that we can click on the web and shop cheaply, check out the latest job sites, discover key information for our studies or work, book a cut-price...
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Planning our next 100 days
3rd February 2016 by craigmilligan
2016 is off to a great start – we spent last week looking back on our work in our previous 100-day drive and looking ahead to plan our next 100 days of work. Welcome This month sees the start of our new Programme Director, Ross Ferguson. Ross has joined us from the University of Bath, where...
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Our approach to testing
8th January 2016 by craigmilligan
This is a post by Rajesh Yarlagadda and David Vidal, our test engineers. This post is the third post in our series covering how we approach continuous delivery, covering our approach to testing. Testing is an essential component of each and every phase of the mygov.scot development process, with quality being “baked in” to the product at every...
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Web analytics update – December 2015
22nd December 2015 by craigmilligan
With Christmas fast approaching, we thought it would be a good time to update you on our progress with the web analytics initiative. We blogged about our desire to understand aggregated statistics from the Scottish Government web portfolio a few months ago – explaining that our initial focus is on core websites. Core websites act as hubs for...
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End of year support
18th December 2015 by craigmilligan
As we’re almost at the end of the year, we’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to the mygov.scot site over 2015. We have had a huge amount of input from fact-checkers and subject-matter experts and we really appreciate all of the work that has gone in to ensuring that the information that we make...
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Transforming Digital Public Services: Working with the Digital Technologies Industry Conference
17th December 2015 by Scott McLear
Attracting around 150 people from Scotland’s vibrant digital tech and ICT industry, this event explored the opportunities and challenges in transforming digital public services through collaboration with the industry. Everyone was encouraged to share their ideas on how government, the public sector and industry can work more closely, and strategically, in delivering this important agenda,...
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Making it easy for people to find local services
9th December 2015 by craigmilligan
This is a post by Reece Cargan, one of our content designers. Over the past 12 months, I’ve seen lots of changes when it comes to content on mygov.scot – in terms of its appearance and the way we approach content creation. This is due to a number of factors: we work in an agile environment...
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An update on our accessibility testing
3rd December 2015 by craigmilligan
This is a post by Sam Tilston, one of our user researchers, and Scott Langley, one of our user experience designers. As part of our on-going accessibility work on www.mygov.scot, we recently carried out a round of accessibility testing. It’s an important part of our overall accessibility strategy to carry out testing with real users as they...
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Designing a discovery workshop
25th November 2015 by craigmilligan
This is a post by Kate Saunderson, one of our user researchers. I was part of a team that designed and delivered a discovery workshop to explore the barriers that SME’s face in raising funding. At the full day event, we explored barriers and solutions with 56 SME’s, advisors and funders. During lunch, an attendee told me that...
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