James StewartDirector of ArchitectureGovernment Digital Service@jystewart
Tatiana SoukiassianJunior DeveloperGovernment Digital Service@binaryberry
We’re from the Government Digital Service
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We started by building GOV.UK
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The best place to find government services and information
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Including things like…
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GDSwww.gov.uk/bank-holidays
GDSwww.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt
GDSwww.gov.uk/calculate-your-maternity-pay
12 million visitors every week
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12 million visitors every week
Home to over 300 departments and organisations
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12 million visitors every week
Home to over 300 departments and organisations
Saving more than £62 million a year
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We’ve also been transforming government services…
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25 of government’s biggest services redesigned to meet the needs of users
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Services like...
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Carer’s Allowance
160,000 claims | 89% user satisfaction
Removed 49% of the questions from the
application process.
Average application time went from 45 mn to
20 mnGDS
LIVE
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Lasting power of attorney
89% user satisfaction
Run by new MOJ digital services team
First service to meet Digital by Default
Service Standard
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LIVE
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To do that we’re working with digital teams in departments all over the country...
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In Swansea DVLA are creating new motoring services
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In Newcastle and London HMRC are using exemplars to transform their architecture
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MOJ are about to start transforming courts
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We’ve made sure everyone can get the data they need to improve services too...
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GDSwww.gov.uk/performance
And we’re building a common way to sign in to services too
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How are we doing all this?
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We take the same approach to everything we work on...
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Open
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Open
Agile
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Open
Agile
Multidisciplinary teams
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Relentlessly focused on user needs
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You can’t fix that stuff in isolation...
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We’re also fixing government’s approach to technology
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New controls, advice and guidance all mean technology meets the needs of civil servants
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We’ve changed how government buys technology and digital services too, making the supply chain much more diverse
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Government’s supplier base used to be here...
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Now it’s here...
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And we’re making sure civil servants have the skills and capabilities they need to do their jobs
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The unit of delivery is the team
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Align around user needs
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Teams need to see people using what they built
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Registering to vote: how a multidisciplinary team made it possible
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Register to vote
45 million users
Individual electoral registration –
fundamental change to democracy
Connects to all local authorities
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Overcoming “Lawyer says no” by showing them the service directly and involving them
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Do the hard work to make it simple.
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Test and learn quickly
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OLD DESIGN NEW DESIGN
Tested on 8 pages of GOV.UK
Each design was presented to half the users
More than 3 times the quantity of feedback
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We started using MongoDB by letting the teams experiment
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Change course as necessary
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It can be hard for leadership
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There are many aspects to making transformation scalable
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Good data management and great technology platforms are vital
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Transformation’s not worth doing for its own sake
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Transformation done right will change every aspect of your operation
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https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/22/good-services-are-verbs-2/
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We need to do the hard work to make it simple
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We need leadership and courage to challenge how our organisations work
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But it’s all so that we can really meet real users’ needs
Thanks!
James Stewart@jystewartTatiana Soukiassian@binaryberry