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In the 90s, a Japanese developer called Yukihiro Matsumoto – after struggling to find a programming language that was both powerful and easy to use – decided instead to create his own. Ruby was born. It was first released publicly in 1995, however didn’t gather…
This is a second post in the series on how we followed Government Digital Services (GDS) Service Design Phases for the rebuild of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise service. You can learn more about the background of the project, Discovery and Alpha phases in the…
Government Digital Service (GDS) was set up in 2011 by Cabinet Office with a task to transform the provision of government digital services by putting users’ needs before the needs of government. We have been lucky enough to work with GDS since early 2013 and…
Most digital services created for GOV.UK have to go through at least one Digital By Default service assessment – the evaluation process designed by Government Digital Services (GDS) to make sure that every part of GOV.UK – no matter who created it – meets the…
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools Working software over Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation Responding to
Perhaps the most unique feature of GOV.UK is the single-mindedness with which it puts content first. And when you’re making a new service – as we have been with the new Queen’s Awards for Enterprise application – it’s important that your content will sit…
There’s a whole host of software that we use in order to keep Bit Zesty running smoothly. Below is a list of the most important tools we use as a company, and why we think they’re so great. Slack Slack is a private chat service…
The rebuild of the web app for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise has seen a number of iterations, and across those iterations the application has changed in its design, layout and content. Our research team for the QAE project remained consistently active from the initial…
We’ve spent four months working to rebuild the web app behind the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The prestigious business awards moved their application process online couple of years ago, so we had a natural starting point – the old system. But although you can learn…