Digital
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Supporting Scotland’s businesses
11th September 2015 by Rachel Dowle
Over the last 100 days, we’ve been finalising what’s needed to close the Scottish Business Portal and move the website’s content and tools on to mygov.scot. The portal (business.scotland.gov.uk) was originally designed to bring business service and support information into one place – pulling content via an API from partner websites like Business Gateway, Scottish Enterprise,...
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What we’ve been working on: Tuesday 25th August
25th August 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager We’re pretty excited about a few things that we’ve been working on recently for www.mygov.scot, the publishing platform and it’s accompanying tools. This morning these fixes, features and improvements have been made available to users through our latest release. We wanted to share a summary...
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Browser compatibility during beta
14th August 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Calum Shepherd, our Head of Digital Strategy. When thinking about our beta iteration of www.mygov.scot six months ago, we decided to firm up our understanding of which browsers we intended on supporting. Compatibility decisions were based upon our understanding of who we thought would be using the website and their current browser choice and version....
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Programme performance measures – doing the right things
7th August 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Calum Shepherd, our Head of Digital Strategy. We should be providing assurance that the strategic decisions we make are correct. We can do this by making sure that the things we do, create or build are all measurable and realise a series of benefits. We’ve called these performance measures; they will...
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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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