Digital
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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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An Update on the Information Sharing Transformation Programme
29th July 2016 by admin
We held a Show and Tell on Friday 22 July to give an update on the Information Sharing national transformation programme led by the Digital Ecosystem Unit (DEU). We are focusing on the justice sector and working with the Criminal Justice Delivery Unit as our first delivery partner. Our work supports the aim to have...
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CivTech: Harnessing the power of digital
6th June 2016 by Scott McLear
Something amazing is happening in Scotland! CivTech® is your chance to use innovation and digital technology to improve public sector services. For businesses [or start-up, pre-start, entrepreneur – or indeed anyone] it’s a real opportunity to win contracts, build business – and along the way make everyone’s life a little bit better. Best of all...
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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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